Top American film critic Roger Ebert has published a letter from a fellow critic in Egypt who tells how he and a small group of writers and film editors advanced on the censorship office, protested to fix the changes that had been made by the censors and eventually did fix them.
This article will also probably get some interest for the colorful Egyptian insult that was leveled at the critic: ‘Sushi eating testicle.’ And of course the other great Egyptian cuss word: ‘liberal,’ as in
…before we knew it a line of security guards and some police officers were between us and the two censorship guys. One of the guys told the security guards “Don’t let them in…they’re liberals.”
