An Excerpt from Youssef Rakha’s “In Extremis: Literature and Revolution in Contemporary Cairo

"The point of this story is to illustrate faith in the mystery of God’s omnipotence. But in a way it also says a lot about politics, language, and context: the relation of the observant to the enlightened, the cynical to the visionary, and appearance to substance."

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OPINIONATOR | DRAFT: The Sound of a Sentence Language can be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody.

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