Love, Loneliness, Rot: “That Smell” and Egypt Under Nasser
"All the people I saw on the street or on the metro were unhappy, unsmiling. What was there to be happy about?"...
"All the people I saw on the street or on the metro were unhappy, unsmiling. What was there to be happy about?"...
"No other feature of our national landscape has the same lonely menace, the same panoramic yet stifling dread of an empty highway."...