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\"\"<\/a>The Buried<\/em> (2019) by Peter Hessler is a good book!<\/p>\n

Hessler and his family, wife and two twin daughters moved to Egypt in 2011, about the time of Arab Spring and stayed for five years. The book covered many grounds: gay, women, elections, poverty, illiteracy, excavations and the Chinese lingeries sellers, etc. are topics he visited often.<\/p>\n

I visited Cairo, Luxor and Aswan in 1984 with a tour. Inland travel were done by air. Cairo was the only city that I had some opportunity to some free time. Since Hessler mentioned cars, I remembered seeing a couple of Benz 500. What had happened then?<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago in Frankfurt, a college Syrian girl who was born in Frankfurt, told me that she’s going to college and even the bus fare is covered by the government. Then quickly, she began to rant insults at U.S. I didn’t reply, for one it’s my policy never argue with an unequal and second, because my knowledge of Middle East is basically empty, other than knowing where Israel is … However I did regret for not asking her if Gaddafi would have allowed his women to attend colleges.<\/p>\n

Prior to the publication of this book in 2019, his long articles on Egypt have appeared in New Yorker<\/p>\n