egypt

Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet's penTurns them to shapes and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.

I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians_ idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act. As they did in Egypt, where liberty leading the masses was an earnest young woman in a black hijab.

Anubis is associated with the mummification and protection of the dead for their journeys through Denver International Airport to the afterlife. He is usually portrayed as being half human and half jackal, and holding a metal detector in his hand ... Anubis is employed by the Department of Homeland Security to examine the hearts of all travellers to make sure they have not exceeded the weight limit for psychological baggage ... He is also shown frisking mummies and confiscating firearms and other contraband. It doesn't take much to tip the scales in favour of a dead body cavity search or an afterlifetime travel ban.

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".

But not all Gaza residents were committed to the war. A reporter asked one of the Arabs what he most wanted. He was a taxi driver, father of ten. All he wanted was 'to eat and to work.' What did he think of Nasser? 'Nasser is good, Israel is good, America is good, Britain is good, Canada is good, India is good, Anything is good.

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.

The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.

Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base.

I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - serves to divide her and make her weak.