oatmeal 🐧 on Nostr: #[0] #[1] it might be worth while to broaden the perspective to understand the ...

npub1cppueu5z5xpp2ruqskuwlth0qtdr7s5mtjrqywruxnq3e0y7gqxq572uya (npub1cpp…2uya) npub1wdh93g3fttmlf4u0tmp060wtwdyjlrw02hnstev58fr23ug6eeasnqjxfv (npub1wdh…jxfv) it might be worth while to broaden the perspective to understand the Egyptian uproar. “Pharaohnism” used to be a thing in the 1920 and 30s on the part of liberal Egyptians, see for example Taha Hussein’s “The Future of Culture in Egypt”, and had a racial/cultural component to it, distancing Egypt from Islam and its Arab identity toward Mediterranean identity. It’s been back for a while, now pushed by el-Sisi’s identity politics - so clearly a very sensitive topic. You might also noticed how often Egypt is in the headlines recently with new archeological findings from this period.