Diary #46

1977-9

Rashad, my father (on the left, carrying a stick) dancing, dressed together with an Egyptian colleague in a Yemeni traditional costume, during a trip outside Sana'a, 1979.

Demoralized by the failure of the 1977 Bread Intifada, and facing an escalating campaign of purges against leftists in the universities and civil service, thousands of Egyptian communi…