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I’ve just returned from a week in Syria and there is a lot to say about the state of the country but for the first time in my life in any Arab nation, I didn’t see a single public image of the president: no portraits in shop windows, no posters, no statues, nothing.

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This is actually a very good step. A British university has cancelled undergrad degrees in English literature, philosophy, and creative writing. One of the problems with these degrees is that they teach no practical skills to students, skills that enable you to get a job and put food on the table. You get a creative writing degree and then what? Who is going to employ you as a novelist or a poet? The other, and more important thing, is that these degrees end up wasting valuable human potential and material resources. For example, the UK has a chronic shortage of doctors. But instead of encouraging young people to take up medicine, these degrees distract them. The country needs surgeons and young people are spending their prime years scanning 15th century poems and writing angsty novels that no one will ever read. English literature degrees in British univerisities are especially useless because they have a narrow understanding of "English literature." It's the same Shakespeare and Spencer over and over again. If you actually want to become a novelist, go and live your life, do things, travel, fall in love, make money so you will have something to say of your own. Then you can always read a couple of novels on your own, see how it's done, and write yours. That's what it takes. You absolutely don't need an undergrad degree to learn how to write a novel.

After the military coup against the only elected president in the history of Egypt, Bassem Youssef appeared on his show dancing over the victims of the Rabaa massacre, chanting for General Sisi, who carried out the coup. Bassem Youssef did not only justify the Rabaa massacre against Egyptians protesting for their vote to be respected, he also participated in the siege and starvation of Gaza, since those he danced for participated in the siege.