'No man, however callous, can find the words he needs to justify himself to the victims of his beliefs. All reasons and excuses abandon him when forced to look into the faces of those he has tried so hard to avoid. He is reduced to a primitive and speechless state, hypnotised by the horror of himself and that he is the beast when there are no more beasts to kill.' Where are the songs of Spring? presents an emerging dystopian vision of Cairo after the January 2011 Revolution where hopes for freedom and democracy have been crushed by the forces of continued government corruption and foreign...
'No man, however callous, can find the words he needs to justify himself to the victims of his beliefs. All reasons and excuses abandon him when force...