A conversation with an old friend

A conversation with an old friend

His voice came as it had come every time during nearly thirty years of our friendship, and after months of distance; but the greeting on his part and the joy on my part did not last long – this time I took the usual Egyptian approach in life which is a harsh attack I made in last week’s article, “The Unspoken Again,” which was an extension of an article that preceded it, “The Unspoken in a Discourse on Egypt.”

The two articles were a kind of commentary on a group of studies on Egypt published by the US Carnegie Foundation led by Palestinian-born researcher Yazid Sayegh and researchers, one of whom is of Egyptian origin and the others are Americans who are experienced in writing and researching Egyptian affairs.

All studies do not differ much from what was published about Egypt in US research centers during the past ten years, where the starting point for them has been the “coup” – not the revolution – that took place in Egypt on June 30, 2013.

The commentary in the two articles was not based on the researchers’ logic, but rather followed “discourse analysis” showing what has not been tackled and what wasn’t mentioned or