Passing through
Ahdaf Soueif: William Golding’s ‘Egyptian Journal’, 3 October 1985
“... About ten years ago, on a previous visit to Egypt, William Golding arrived at ‘a simple truth: that Egypt is a complex country of more-or-less Arab culture and it is outrageous for the uninformed visitor to confine himself to dead Egyptians while the strange life of the valley and the desert goes on all round him ... ”