Harry Potter in Egypt? Where can I buy it?

I do not see how that suits your being in Egypt though as opposed to my chose which is based on their culture.

I still think you are hard headed and should take advice for good :D

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How is that based on their culture? Maybe 2,000 years ago! (ok 1400 to 1100).

I see no pyrmids in that book. Unless it is some karma sutra type of thing maybe. You little perv you.

Besides, I thought my choice along with yours would make for a nice well balanced perspective.

Sexual adventures of HP in Egyptian Pyramids?????

OMG!!!! interesting twist
I think they kill him in the last version though at least that is what my friend at bookstore told me.. he is sorrounded by HPbooks and wants themall thrown from here to Egyptp so you will most probably find one there at least!!!!

ermmm #23 has a good point.. but I can not tell what Yasmeen prefers though.. I think she is more into culture...

"social hypocrisy" = the Egyptian society is obsessed with appareances (the bride must (pretend to) be virgin, a respectable woman must wear a veil, men harm themselves on the upper face voluntarily in order to make a scar that will have people believe they pray 5 times a day, neighbors spy on neighbors, people drink alcohol but only once hidden...). This obsession with appareances is a quite recent phenomenon and many Egyptian intellectuals consider it is destroying their country from within and that it comes largely from the influence of Wahabism (the radical form of Islam imported from Saudi Arabia).

And how is this diferent from other socieities social hypocrisy? Every society has it's signals. And how recent are we talking about as for it being a social import because some of those things have been an integral part of the society for millenia. I think it is simplistic to lay all of it at the feet of the Wahaabis although it would be nice to.

By the way, the understanding of islam you are referring to is a combination of originally Egyptian salafist thought exported to SA and mingled with Wahabbist ideas and attitudes, then reimported back to Egypt and other places in the world. Specifically the ideas of Sayid Qutb and his book Milestones, the influence of Pakistan's Mawdudi, along with Ibn Wahab and Ibn Taymiyya meshed together to form the current day salafist thought which ranges from jihadists on one end of the spectrum to peaceful people who simply seek a return to a utopian ideal of the past on the other end.

Skyprincess wants to read Harry Potter. So what. So do I.
Its funny, its well written, and I want to know what happens before anybody else gets the chance to tell me and spoil it.

I read a lot. More, and more widely than most other people I know. I read books because I think I will be interested, challenged or amused by them. Not because I feel obliged to by someone else's idea of what is politically correct.

As I have read several of Naguib Mahfouz' books, and The Yacoubian building, may I please be given the all clear to read Harry Potter ?

I just told my mother exactly what you said, genghis - that I didn't want anyone else to spoil it for me before I could read it. Besides it has become my cultural tradition to curl up with it the weekend after it's release.

Catw, I think what astounds me about your replies to me is embodied in this line that you wrote, "Might be less rich in flying broomsticks than "Harry Potter" but should leave you with a little more culture in the head."

That is pretty condescending don't you think? Pray tell me what aspects you think I should educate myself in....other than Mahfouz.

Awww, seems we ran off catw. I was hoping she/he would come back so we could have a lively debate. Rats.

Sky.... just as a footnote.... if you are trying to call any Cairo number they have all been recently given a 2 or a 4 before the old number... i.e. if you are trying to call 7975967 ( AUC bookstore office ) and it does not work then try 27975967 or 47975967. Thus all Cairo numbers should now have 8 digits not 7 like before.