One day I’ll tell you what I think
Adam Shatz: Sartre in Cairo, 22 November 2018
No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre and Decolonisation
by Yoav Di-Capua.
Chicago, 355 pp., £26, March 2018,978 0 226 50350 9 Show More
by Yoav Di-Capua.
Chicago, 355 pp., £26, March 2018,
The Stillborn: Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt
by Arwa Salih, translated by Samah Selim.
Seagull, 163 pp., £20, April 2018,978 0 85742 483 9 Show More
by Arwa Salih, translated by Samah Selim.
Seagull, 163 pp., £20, April 2018,
“... In the spring of 1961, Frantz Fanon wrote to his publisher in Paris to suggest that he ask Jean-Paul Sartre for a preface to his anti-colonial manifesto, The Wretched of the Earth. ‘Tell him that every time I sit down at my desk, I think of him.’ For revolutionary intellectuals in the Third World, Sartre seemed miraculously uncontaminated by the paternalism – and hypocrisy – that gave the white left such a bad reputation ... ”
