![]() The government had so successfully indoctrinated citizens – partly through patronage, partly through fear – that few dared to speak out, even if asked to. Things didn’t change much, even as Egypt became more open in the early 2000s with the arrival of the internet and widespread access to mobile phones. There were subjects never to be addressed. ![]() Rumours were rife about what happened to a classmate’s father we heard snippets of things but knew we could never ask outright. If we broached a subject that was out of bounds, we were brought to silence by stern eye contact from an elder. I learned this early on from the way my parents, their friends and our relatives distinguished what could or couldn’t be said. As a child growing up in Egypt, I learned that politics could put you in jail, if not simply get you vanished away.
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