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"In reaction to the post-match violence in Sudan, several prominent Egyptian commentators have called for boycotting Algerian products and events. Bekhiet, however, believes such hasty and emotional reactions to be counterproductive. “Next we'll be boycotting Libya over a tennis match or Saudi Arabia over a basketball game,” he said. “We're suffering from a national hallucination. Is our national history to be written in a football stadium?”"

It is sadly ironic how much pro-government commentators and media are calling to boycott Algeria, but are far more timid to discuss boycotting the two biggest threats to Egypt and the region as a whole: Saudi Arabia and Israel.

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As`ad AbuKhalil never fails. This excellent piece discusses the demise of pan-Arabism, contextualized in the recent sporting rivalry between Egypt and Algeria to play at next year's World Cup. Frankly, I think FIFA should have disqualified both teams from the start; pre- and post-game media sensationalism set off an unnecessary wave of violence, ignorance, and jingoism.

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egypt algeria nationalism

Some notes from a doctoral dissertation/book on the representation of Arabs and Islam in Persian literature.

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