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"so deep"

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"complex book , black comedy , brilliant"

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"Excellent symbolic analysis of the illness ..nearly collapse of the contemporary society of Cairo .."

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"Egypt today !!"

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"Intelligent preview of the Arabic world through Arabic eyes pushed a way during critical political & social changing ..(even if the focus seems only on Egypt) "

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