Well, speaking as a soft-leftie, I don't entirely disagree with one excerpt I heard from Cruella's speech, something like "it's immoral to expect white people to feel guilty for t… (View Post)

Indeed. The Blair-Miliband of our days, I think. (View Post)

Georges Moustaki - Greek-Italian-Egyptian-Jewish from Alexandria. Omar Sharif - Greek-Antiochian-Lebanese-Egyptian, from a similar part of Northern Egypt, as I remember. (View Post)

Interesting writer. He wrote some great poetry about modern Greece, too. A friend of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who ended up as a mayor in Mani, in Southern Greece. I think he knew Cavafy, and Seferis, an… (View Post)

I recommend a bit of Cavafy as you circle Alexandria, Leon. EM Forster was a fan - in fact it was he that made him famous in Northern Europe. (View Post)