“Maybe not a hydra because that’s really, really nasty. I think there was almost a false head: we ripped open the packaging and now we’re faced with the real thing that’s there in the box…”

— Ahdaf Soueif

On the state of Egypt after the ousting of Mubarak in “INTERVIEW WITH AHDAF SOUEIF” http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-with-ahdaf-soueif/ in The White Review (March 2012)

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