Book Review: Depicting a country fooling itself

Book Review: Depicting a country fooling itself

Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswany: the trained dentist performs fictional root canal on the ideological clash that preceded and followed the Arab Spring.

  • The Republic of False Truths
  • Alaa Al Aswany,
  • Faber. €15

IT'S amazing what we forget, and maybe even more surprising what slips past us in the first place.

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