But that (i.e., colonialism) was only half the story, he reminded himself wearily. What about the government corruption and endless red tape, the hee… - Jamil Nasir

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But that (i.e., colonialism) was only half the story, he reminded himself wearily. What about the government corruption and endless red tape, the heedless economic policies, the lavish life-styles of graft-taking officials, the bloated bureaucracies, the mismanaged state industries? Surely no victim of colonial plunder had ever participated more enthusiastically in its own rape than Egypt.

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Jamil Nasir (born 18 December 1955) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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