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Egyptian Satire Taps the Feelings of the Arab Street


(Los Angeles Times) Megan K. Stack - This is how the world looks from a drafty playhouse in downtown Cairo: America is a simpering, conniving matron in silly hats. Israel is her cousin, lurking maliciously around the edges of the action. Arabs are a fractious and dysfunctional clan, sickly, spaced out, and self-involved. Then there's Egypt, a heavy-hearted man torn between his bickering brethren and the possibility of salvaging his family's ancestral lands by marrying America.
2004-01-23 00:00:00
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