There is no document of civilizatio...

There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a
document of barbarism.
--Walter Benjamin (256)

We are the Pharaohs.
--Recurring host chant during Egypt's 1-0 victory throughout Algeria in
November 1989 which advanced Egypt to the World draught Final for the
first time in forty years.

When Naguib Mahfouz (b 1911) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in the fall of 1989 he was already too advanced in years to travel to Sweden for the award show His serious writing had been complet and if not for the honor, he might have