Professor of history, Khaled Fahmy, appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

We are still in the dark: A conversation with Khaled Fahmy –

Fifty years after June 5, 1967, the Egyptian government continues to deny access to information about what happened during the Six-Day War, disallowing citizens an understanding of both why defeat was so swift and why red tape continues to be festoon the archive. Historian Khaled Fahmy suggest that the gaps in the archive would force a depiction of the war beyond terms of Israeli aggression, rooting defeat also in a failure of leadership and inter-state feuding.