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Algeria attacks Mother of the World
Issandr El Amrani
How dare they?
Amine Azaoui outrages EgyptSo troublesome, these Algerians... when they're not complaining about Egypt's stranglehold over the Arab League (they are the only other country that seems to take the Arab League seriously) they try to belittle it. La h'shouma.
on Monday, June 25 @ 13:40:53 CDT
The head of the National library , M Amine Zaoui sparked a wave of controversy after his statement to one the Egyptian daily newspapers “Al Watani al yaoum” in which he reconsidered the idea of “Egypt, mother of the world” and the wagon of the Arab world.
M Zaoui went on, in his critics by declaring that the Egyptian cultural week in the event “Algiers , capital of Arab cultures” was the worst one so far. He added that “Egypt was no longer the hub of the Arab culture and that the Egyptian men of culture have no cause to defend, besides, the Arab language in Egypt is clumsy”.
These declarations, outraged many Egyptian literary men , among them the poet, Mohamed Ibrahim Aboussena , who replied to Amine Azaoui in these words” Egypt is still the mainstream , and Amine Azaoui has just to look at the reality”.
As to the Egyptian philosopher, Mahmoud Amine Al Alam, this one declared in response to Azaoui’s statement” Egypt is leading the Arab world in terms of plurality, and the fact of belittling this reality is a lie.”
Reader Comments (5)
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[...] Zaoui sparked a wave of controversy by declaring that Egypt was no longer the hub of Arab culture, writes Issandr El Amrani in The Arabist. Share [...]
where is this awkwardly written except from?
the Algerians are saying OUR Arabic is clumsy?! ha2aw. who understands their awful guttural tongue?
The Egyptian inflated collective ego is something utterly annoying for Moroccans, i see Algerians maybe feel the same. Now Egyptians experience some inflated Maghrebi ego this time, equally annoying huh! ^^
I can't believe you people ever considered political unification, with all these inflated collective egos (nice term, Xoussef).