Thinking with Alaa
"When I demand my right to read and write, I am not asking for a luxury."
Khaled Fahmy is a professor of history and chair of the American University in Cairo's Department of History. He is the author of "All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali Pasha, His Army and the Founding of Modern Egypt" and "The Body and Modernity: Essays in the History of Medicine and Law in Modern Egypt." His columns appear in Al-Shorouk and Al-Ahram…
"When I demand my right to read and write, I am not asking for a luxury."
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