المجلس الأعلى للثقافة (Egyptian Supreme Council of Culture) المجلس الأعلى للثقافة (Egyptian Supreme Council of Culture) i(8050752 works by) (Organisation) assertion
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43 18 y separately published work icon Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. Ibtisam Abdallah with title في انتظار البرابرة ) Cairo : المجلس الأعلى للثقافة (Egyptian Supreme Council of Culture) , 2000 6303247 1980 single work novel 'How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them.

After twenty years of peacefully running one of the Empire’s settlements, a magistrate takes pity on an enemy barbarian who has been tortured. He enters into an awkward intimate relationship with her, and then is himself imprisoned as an enemy of the state.

Waiting for the Barbarians is a disturbing political fable about oppression, the fraught desire for reparation, and about living with a troubled conscience under an unjust regime.'

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1 y separately published work icon Mashrūʻ al-qawmī lil-tarjamah Cairo : المجلس الأعلى للثقافة (Egyptian Supreme Council of Culture) , 1994 8050770 1994 series - publisher novel
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