Egypt – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ-grinder tweets for December 2017

More inanity from the Hackney organity.

Nasser and the hijab

Jokes with the party faithful about the negotiations with the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood following the 1952 revolution.

Ernst Jünger and the Libyan revolution

Chunks of Heliopolis and Eumeswil dealing with smartphones, language and power meet up with the Gaddafis.

Arthur Ditchfield, The Casbah and the Ravine of the Centaur, Algiers (1873), at the <a href='http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O125738/oil-painting-the-casbah-and-the-ravine/'>V&A</a>

Berlusconi and the wiseness of Mubarak

“The wisest of men” line isn’t the former’s, but ben trovato it certainly is.

<a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/cagiflickr/5389372179/'>Tutta colpa di mia nipote Ruby</a>, CC by <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/cagiflickr/'>cagiflickr</a>

How the Moriscos of Granada made poison darts

The action sometimes turned a shade Bulgarian during the Granada Wars–at least that’s what one infers from Diego Hurtado de Mendoza in this extract from Guerra de Granada (paras introduced for legibility): Wounded by two poisoned arrows, Don Alonso [de Aguilar] fought until he fell, disabled by the poison used among hunters since ancient times.…