and they consume most of our attention. While we eat lunch or drive home from work, while we talk to our partners or read to our children at night, we continue to replay our worries and plans. Inherent in the trance is the belief that no
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“As Fawaz Gerges has astutely argued, Egyptian nationalism developed in response to British colonization of Egypt, hence a concept of ‘sameness’ in opposition to the ‘other’ became prevalent.
Chapter 1: Genesis, page 31”
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Chapter 1: Genesis, page 31”
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“The conception of the organic unity of the nation also plays a role in dampening social conflict, since, simply put, any form of struggle over the distribution of wealth or political and economic rights can be interpreted as sabotage of this perceived ‘unity’.”
― Egypt under El-Sisi: A Nation on the Edge
― Egypt under El-Sisi: A Nation on the Edge
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