Gamal al-Ghitani Q & A

       At ahramonline Sayed Mahmoud, Mary Mourad, and Mohamed Saad have a Q & A with Gamal El-Ghitani: Politics dominate literature in post-revolution Egypt (with video, and lots of pictures).
       As far as some of his concerns go ... well, we've heard these before:

Literary life is facing dangers, starting when major publishing houses start adopting the 'bestseller policy'. Looking at the list of bestsellers is alarming, when top of the list is a light comic book and the serious books are at the bottom of the list.

       But he makes some good extra-literary points:

Days ago, the first veiled TV anchor was introduced. At a time when the USA is showing pictures from Mars and the first man on the moon just passed away, the greatest achievement the Brotherhood are bragging about is showing a veiled lady on TV.

       See also reviews of his Pyramid Texts and Zayni Barakat .