I just returned from a quick business trip in the United Arab Emirates.
I went to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, almost 10 years since my last visit there..
I was honored with a golden residency...
On my way from the airport to the heart of Dubai, my eyes kept staring at everything around me.. After a period of silence, I turned to my wife,
Despite the English occupation of Egypt lasting about seventy-five years (three-quarters of a century), French culture was the most influential in the aristocratic class in Egypt. Most of its members went to France to obtain their higher degrees from there. For example, we saw literary figures and visual artists like Taha Hussein, Mohamed
News on the morning of Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The Presidential spokesperson releases a statement at 1:30 am declaring that democracy is the only way to solve the crisis and differences in vision. He also states that the President was not presented with the armed forces' statement, and he knows nothing about it.
He continues to say
When we say we are in a state of nothingness... we find it's a term unpalatable to everyone.
What are you doing? Nothing!!
What are you thinking about? Nothing!!
And we find their arrows of accusations directed at us... You're lazy... You're a failure... You don't have goals. You don't understand the meaning of
The relationship between East and West, and the conflict between Eastern values and Western values, have been- and will remain - a subject of questioning, research, and a theme that stories, plays, novels, and travel literature deal with.
- Tawfiq al-Hakim, “A Sparrow from the East”, a novel in print and a film
