“The idea of the book arose from my interest in writing about the body and its relationship to surrounding spaces. It explores the political, intellectual, and organizational state of paralysis that has afflicted Egyptian society due to the oppression of the current regime.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51
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