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“...children. So I was becoming more interested in
independent... that is now known as the generation of the nineties or my generation
who started independent theatre, who started independent publishing and so on. And
you would meet those people who you'd see at the steps of the main library in front of
the faculty of arts, our department, you would see then in whatever and then you would
go and sit at a cafe and discuss and so on. At that time of course, 1990, there was the...
later on, the war, Kuwait- Iraq, and you had the demonstrations. I think the first
demonstration I walked in was again a Nasserist. I didn't realize it was a Nasserist
demonstration when I was an undergraduate. I went with a friend, they were
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HK: marching across the... and then they started chanting something about Nasser, I
don't know what, and I decided I'm leaving, and my friend decided that he's leaving too
because we were not at that point for Nasser as a person. We liked the chants about
social justice, about students'...”
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“...moments in the history of our university whereby there
would be a call for a demonstration on campus. Usually at a director's office, and I
would go, and there was a group of academic activists whose faces were familiar to me
because I used to see them, and then they started organizing. They knew each other
much earlier since the seventies mostly. This was a generation, Huda Sadda's
generation. Most of them knew themselves through the seventies. What brought them
together was the Intifada, the Iraq war, the war on Kuwait, alright? These issues... the
death of a student on campus in 1990 by tear gas. So I wasn't part of this circle, the
committee for defending national culture. She's not here but she's (Inaudible 0:02:06:9)
Amina Rasheed. So, I knew about these things through figures in our faculty of arts such
as Sayyed Al-Bahrawi who taught Arabic , fourth year, such as Amina Rasheed whom I
knew, saw her and knew her later on from the film about her "Four Women from
Egypt". There were a...”
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