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About Me
- Sarah Carr
- Journalist. Egypt. I write about stuff. amnesiac.inanities@gmail.com
In flight taxi entertainment
- Alicia Erian: Towelhead
- Maggie O'Farrell: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
- Barbara Demick: Nothing to Envy
- Dom Joly: The Dark Tourist
- Chinamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun
- Ronnie Thompson: Screwed
- Ibrahim Abdel Meguid: The Other Place
- Khaled El-Berry: Life is More Beautiful than Paradise
- Mohamed El-Bisatie: Drumbeat
- Andrea Levy: Small Island
- Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake
- Asef Bayat: Life as Politics
- R.K Narayan: The Guide: A Novel of a Reluctant Holy man
- Alan Bennett: The Uncommon Reader
- Michael T. Luongo: Gay Travels in the Muslim World
- Charles Dickens: Hard Times
- Manu Larcenet: Ordinary Victories
- James Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain
- P.G Wodehouse: The Mating Season
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- Thomas W. Lippman: Egypt After Nasser
- John Irving: The World According to Garp
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me go
- صنع الله ابراهيم: تلك الرائحة
- Malcolm Gladwell: Blink
- Joe Bageant: Deer Hunting with Jesus
- مصطفى فتحي: في بلد الولاد
- Magnus Mills: All Quiet On the Orient Express
- Carson McCullers: The Member of the Wedding
- Magnus Mills: The Restraint of Beasts
- Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea
- Kazuo Ishiguro; A Pale View of Hills
- Dannie Abse: There Was a Young Man From Cardiff
- Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Cormac McCarthy: The Road
- Rabih Alameddine: The Hakawati
- Diran Adebayo: Some Kind of Black
- Ryszard Kapuscinski: Shah of Shahs
- Paul O'Grady: At My Mother's Knee and Other Low Joints
- Helen Walsh: Once Upon a Time in England
- Irvine Welsh: Crime
- Bessie Head: When Rain Clouds Gather
- David K. Shipler: The Working Poor
- Lucette Lagnado: The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
- Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Shusaku Endo: Deep River
- K. Sello Duiker: Thirteen Cents
- Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Song
- P.G Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters
- P.G Wodehouse: The Inimitable Jeeves
- Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road
- Ernest J. Gaines: A Lesson Before Dying
- Shusaku Endo: Silence
- Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Follies
- Tayeb Salih: Season of Migration to the North
- Denys Johnson-Davies: Memories in Translation
- John Bradley: Inside Egypt
- Bernice Rubens: I Sent a Letter to My Love
- Ian McEwan: The Comfort of Strangers
- Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
- Lionel Shriver: We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Charles Bukowski: Ham On Rye
- Alice Munro: The Beggar Maid
- Sonallah Ibrahim: Zaat
- Hari Kunzru: Intimacy
- Slash: Slash
- Jeremy Bowen: War Stories
- Hugh Miles: Playing Cards in Cairo
- Essam Youssef: 1/4 Gram
- Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist
- Ayman al-Hakim: Baligh Hamdy
- Amin Maalouf: On Identity
- Ian McEwan: Atonement
- The Orton Diaries, edited by John Lahr
- Yusuf Idris: The Cheapest Nights & other stories
- Hamdy el-Gazzar: Black Magic
- Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Gambler & Stories of the 60s
- Yusuf al-Qa'id: War in the Land of Egypt
- Dickens: Great Expectations
- Diana Athill: After a Funeral
- Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5
- Penelope Lively: Oleander, Jacaranda
- Matt Haig: The Dead Fathers Club
- Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
- Oscar Wilde: A Woman of No Importance
- William Dalrymple: City of Djinns
- Alan Bennett: Three Stories
- Charles Bukowski: Tales of Ordinary Madness
- Tamima Anam: A Golden Age
- Jeanette Winterson: Oranges are not the Only Fruit
- Khaled Mohi El Din: Memories of a Revolution
- Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Edwar al-Kharrat: Stones of Bobello
- Alice Munro: Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage
- Charles Bukowski: Barfly the Movie
- Bahaa Taher: Love in Exile
- Alifa Rifaat: Distant View of a Minaret & other stories
- Don Delillo: Underworld
- George Orwell: Coming Up for Air
- Tennessee Williams: One Arm
- Mark Haddon: A Spot of Bother
- J.M Coetze: Slow Man
- Jeremy Bowen: War Stories
- Hugh Miles: Playing Cards in Cairo
Photos what I have taken
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2 comments:
The images are heart breaking. Other than the loss of archives & documents, the building itself is irreplaceable.
It reminds me of Ahmad Ragab's Far El Sabtteya, it had a weird craving for electric wires, kind of pica, & was responsible for a similar wave of fires which ravaged the opera house, among others. It seems to have emerged from hibernation.
What is truly terrifying is that our blessed state could not protect its most loyal patrons,a horrifying indication if what would happen if God forbid a fire or a similar disaster occured in a crowded slum where houses are made out of tin and wood. Rabena Yostor.More than corruption, I think-actually I'm quite certain- that this country is ravaged by incompetence. Corruption is tolerable. At least you can trace its networks and figure out its logic. Incompetence is a swarming chaos of sub-level mentalities functioning in an irrational structure of catastrophes waiting to happen.Yay!
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