Sunday, February 11, 2007
The Teeth of Egypt
In The Sunday Times: my interview with the engaged and engaging Egyptian novelist and dentist Alaa Al Aswany.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Search This Blog
Blog Archive
-
▼
2007
(1113)
-
▼
February
(63)
- Clueless on Wall Street
- Monte Carlo
- No Toblerone
- Vista: The World Wakes
- More Renoir
- Coulrophobia 3: The Real Thing
- Globes
- On Getting It Wrong
- Just to Say...
- Britney: I Think I Have the Answer
- Cancel the Olympics 3
- Righting the Wrongs of Wikipedia
- Coulrophobia 2: The Cull
- God to Call Press Conference
- How to Spell Definitely
- Hackery: US versus UK
- The Sock Puppet
- Harry Saves Iraq
- Welcome Aboard, Stuart
- Er... 2: How to Sell Out
- For Auden
- Er....
- Hot News from Jeff and Amanda
- Liverpool's Inner Demons
- The Sexualised and the Sexless
- Move Over, Jeff
- A Thinly Veiled Threat
- Obesity Causes Television
- Wife in the Money 2: Jeff Calls
- Wife in the Money
- Negley says...
- Faith in Meg and Frum
- Guido's Port
- Obama and the Aussies
- For Negley Farson
- The Hidden Matter of the Dwarf Spheroidal
- On Camille
- Amanda Marcotte and Scary America
- Random Post with Flashing Squid
- The Lingering Death of the NHS Computer
- On Blogs and Petitions
- 2018: Do Not Go There
- Grandee Posts Early
- The Best Thing About Blogging...
- The Teeth of Egypt
- Archer: The Theft and The Verdict
- Brown Eyes the Bloggers
- The Beijing Anomaly
- The Faith of China
- Fantasy Football
- On Shaving While Driving
- Friendly Fire
- Footballer Talks Sense Shock
- Dead Turkeys and Rationality
- Homage to H.G.Wells and the Telescope Sign
- Real Men
- Affluenza
- Great Cupitt
- Bird Flu: A Turkey Speaks Out
- Global Warming: Another C4 Cock-Up?
- Dirty Dealings in the Blogs
- Further Shilpa Shetty Shock
- Nick Park: Free at Last
-
▼
February
(63)
"America has been paying Mr Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban for years, and supporting the Saudi regime, which is distributing these kinds of ideas for years.”
ReplyDeleteThese kind of ideas being the attempts to radicalise Islam. What a world of lies and propaganda we inhabit.
The old Greek idea that one must engage in politics that he mentions is something I'd have retreated from with most of the fibres of my being not too long ago, but I'd now have to agree with. Though in my own case, politics meant in a very broad sense.
I take it then, Andrew, you must have been a Fianna Failer!
ReplyDeleteDid his paunch make him uncomfortable or you uncomfortable, Bry?!
ReplyDeleteBryan,
ReplyDeletewere you following me? I just arrive back from holiday in Egypt (and being without internet for two weeks!) when you post this piece!
I will reassess my fresh impression through the new lens. Thank you
Yes, Rebel, I may as well come clean. I am psychic. Helps a lot in my trade. Uncomfortable for him, Susan, a rather strained posture while seated.
ReplyDeleteBy engaging in politics, Neil, doesn't necessarily stretch to ever voting...We're probably talking in a very broad sense.
ReplyDeleteNot to vote at all is a sin (a secular sin).
ReplyDeleteWell, I admit I do tend to vote, though prsumably with reluctance and a sense of futility. I say presumably because the experience of voting hasn't left a strong enough mark for me to recall what it ever feels like.
ReplyDelete