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Tarek Amr
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As a middle-class Egyptian, do you think you have more in common with a middle-class European or American, or with a lower-class Egyptian? This book made me realize it's the latter. I love the author's style and the subtle things she observes. But at times, she makes Edward Said turn in his grave with her condescending, orientalist ideas and footnotes.
— Mar 24, 2025 02:03PM
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Tarek Amr
is on page 146 of 186
Are the footnotes made up facts?! Google cannot find a Seif Deif and his book Mourner in Space-Time Continuum. There were no tuktuks in 1968. Fifi Abdou is not in El-Limby. And there is no connection between balding and urinaries in Egyptian Arabic.
— Mar 26, 2025 01:03AM
Tarek Amr
is on page 104 of 186
I am loving the author’s style, but the one who writes the footnotes is a moron who makes things up
— Mar 23, 2025 04:17AM
Tarek Amr
is on page 93 of 186
No one ever talks about the punishing aesthetics of being poor
— Mar 23, 2025 03:15AM
