[Foundation-l] FYI: Welcome to this years Wikimania site: Egypt, the land with cultur ministers with special taste in history, culture and all the good things

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Thu May 22 18:51:45 UTC 2008


Mathias Schindler wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>   
>> It's also good to remember that Mahfouz was not universally admired in
>> his own country.
>>     
> Looking at Elfriede Jelinek, Orhan Pamuk and John Maxwell Coetzee, I
> think that this is some kind of requirement for writing interesting
> texts. I might mix cause and effect.

O'Casey, Steinbeck, Pasternak, Fo....

Looks like I'll be reading the Cairo Trilogy on the long flight to 
Wikimania.

Ec



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