The Past in Egypt’s Present
Egyptians must answer the vexing question that they have failed for six decades to confront: What is Egypt? One must hope that the experience of recent decades will induce a broad range of Egyptians to seek an answer based on respect for plurality of ideas, frames of reference, and traditions.
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LONDON – In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the Czech novelist Milan Kundera wrote that, “The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”