Abstract
“She did not believe in modern medicine and associated it with major catastrophes and serious events.” So says the mother in Naguib Mahfouz's 1956 novel, Palace Walk. But there, too, one will find quotations that have a remarkable echo today: “the terrible struggle raging between the laws of heredity, attempting to keep things the same, and the law of time, pushing for change and a finale…In that magical universe he could visualize a new world, a new nation, a new home, a new people…the nation was preoccupied by its demand for freedom…Is this really a revolution?…Egypt appeared to be one great demonstration.” Here was the moment when Britain's protectorate over Egypt was overthrown and a new constitution put in its place. As now, Egyptians looked ahead to an era of “total independence”. Yet the “nightmare of the English” was followed by a nightmare of a different kind. Egyptian liberty may yet have some troubled dreams ahead.
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