{"id":1776,"date":"2006-11-24T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T09:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2006-11-24T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T09:36:55","slug":"2006-11-24-farouk-hosni-the-accidental-martyr-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"Farouk Hosni, the accidental martyr"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Conversations at Thanksgiving dinner last night (mostly Egyptians of various religions) generally went like this: &#8220;I would have never thought I&#8217;d say this, but we need to help out Farouk Hosni.&#8221; One suggestion was to circulate a petition along the lines of &#8220;Farouk Hosni is a scumbag, but&#8230;&#8221; Among this extremely liberal crowd, the attack on Hosni is seen as an attack on secular values and the ability to speak your mind out. Among a certain segment of Egyptian society (in this case it was more artists and writers rather than wealthy people) the thoughts that Farouk Hosni expressed in his honey-drizzled comments to al-Masri al-Youm (&#8220;women are like delicate flowers that must be admired,&#8221; etc&#8230;) are self-evident. Egypt has gone through a surge of conservatism in the past two decades and many people from this milieu feel almost betrayed by their country. What Hosni said out loud is routinely uttered <em>sotto voce<\/em>. But I wonder if some frank dialogue might not be more useful than the delicate, elaborate scaffolding of white lies that most people generally hide being when discussing this type of issue.<\/p>\n<p>The turkey was delicious.<\/p>\n<p>(Background on the Farouk Hosni affair <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/11\/22\/farouk-hosni-wont-step-out-of-his-house\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Conversations at Thanksgiving dinner last night (mostly Egyptians of various religions) generally went like this: &#8220;I would have never thought I&#8217;d say this, but we need to help out Farouk Hosni.&#8221; One suggestion was to circulate a petition along the lines of &#8220;Farouk Hosni is a scumbag, but&#8230;&#8221; Among this extremely liberal crowd, the attack on Hosni is seen as an attack on secular values and the ability to speak your mind out. Among a certain segment of Egyptian society (in this case it was more artists and writers rather than wealthy people) the thoughts that Farouk Hosni expressed in his honey-drizzled comments to al-Masri al-Youm (&#8220;women are like delicate flowers that must be admired,&#8221; etc&#8230;) are self-evident. Egypt has gone through a surge of conservatism in the past two decades and many people from this milieu feel almost betrayed by their country. What Hosni said out loud is routinely uttered <em>sotto voce<\/em>. But I wonder if some frank dialogue might not be more useful than the delicate, elaborate scaffolding of white lies that most people generally hide being when discussing this type of issue.<br \/>\nThe turkey was delicious.<br \/>\n(Background on the Farouk Hosni affair <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/11\/22\/farouk-hosni-wont-step-out-of-his-house\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[102,6,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}