Slog - Comments on Popular in Cairo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/popular_in_cairo The article is terrible, but its opening is funny: As of last April, the late Edward Said's "Orientalism," originally published in 1978, was no. 2 on the best-seller list in Cairo. No. 1was a book arguing that Saddam Hussein hadn't really been executed...... Copyright 2008 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:29:21 -0800 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:02:23 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fnarf Ibn Warraq is brilliant. Why I Am Not A Muslim is a better apologia for atheism than Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens put together. Everything that is wrong with Arab intellectualism and right with Western intellectualism is right there in the fact that he is one of ours, not one of theirs.

Is Mein Kampf still on the Egyptian bestseller list?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/popular_in_cairo#c877566 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/popular_in_cairo#c877566 Books Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:48:55 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Actually, he's really at this very green ranch in Texas, cutting brush ...

Oh, you thought the Secret Service was there for GWB?

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]]> PJ http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/popular_in_cairo#c877573 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/popular_in_cairo#c877573 Books Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:52:30 -0800 Comment by maxsolomon@home WHY is this article terrible, charles?

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]]> Alex http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/popular_in_cairo#c877788 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/popular_in_cairo#c877788 Books Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:15:23 -0800 Comment by mudede @4, i greatly disagree with its reading of Said's masterpiece and its impact on cultural studies.

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