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[QUOTE]Originally posted by akshar: [QB] I agree that no book is going to tell you as much as actually living here. But some people have never been outside their country and they are proposing to set up in Egypt. At least reading these books before hand will give them some much needed background. I read everything I can lay my hands on as I find it all helps but if I had to pick one it would be the fiction book by Ahdaf Soueif. To quote from the blurb [quote]"In the Eye of the Sun" is a story about growing up, a story about what it is like to be a woman of the East and in the West, a story about the last thirty or so perplexed and bloody years. a story about home. It is the great English novel about Egypt, which is also the great Egyptian novel about England.[quote] I found it a great help in understanding some of the dynamics that have shaped Egyptian society, her descriptions of police brutality and living in a police state are haunting. But it also explores the differences between East and West from an Egyptian woman's point of view. She lives in London, one of my old syrian friends has met her, she writes in English and her mother translates her novels into Arabic. I totally recommend it in helping you get under the skin of the country before you move there. I do also agree that Islam makes more sense especially when you live here and see it working. There was a dispute between my husband and some other people about the water and electricity to some land and it was arbitrated and decided by the local sheik. No lawyers involved. I was talking to him about my daughter, she has reached the teenage years and reports back to me on her MSN conversations with her friends back in the UK. It completely horrified me. I don't know if it is true or they are just boasting. I don't like it' I like her living in in an Islamic society and its rules for girls which mean she is safe. My husband then rounded on me and said you agree with so many things about Islam why don't you become a Muslim. Well that shut me up about her :D It is something I think about a lot but I had the unfortunate experience to be involved in a cult and this has somewhat shattered my ability to believe in things making any change much more complicated. I envy people who have certainty I certainly do not. BTW this is a great discussion much better than the norm on ES [/QB][/QUOTE]
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