ALTHOUGH I HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY busy over the last week with issues relating to my activities as a pedagogue and translator, nothing is too important for me not to read three newspapers a day and watch TV news ad infinitum. And so I am forced to state that as to the events in Egypt, which had promised to be “televisually”, as my new American Girl Friday put it recently, “a treat”, none of this has happened. Not even after two consecutive Fridays promising the wrath of Allah.
PERHAPS THIS BRINGS HOME THE TRUTH of what was once stated by a prominent Israeli public figure in defence of Israel’s occupancy of the shifting sands and silt of the Nile that, “Egyptians like being occupied. It saves them the bother of having to rule themselves.” Indeed, never has a “revolutionary” crowd seemed more content to stand around aimlessly than these good citizens of the most ancient civilization still standing.
NEVERTHELESS, AFTER HAVING TO WATCH CRICKET for a good period of the Christmas holidays, the fate of having to watch a few more days of people standing around in public squares in Cairo is enough to make me consider switching channels and spending time watching “Top Gear” on “Dave”.
BUT, ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE, there is a great deal one can learn from recent events: we now know that Egypt will soon be losing a president and, more importantly, that the USA does not have one at all. The question now is who will go first, Mubarak or Barack (pictured above after been sworn in as Pharaoh).
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