Thus He Spoke: Part Seven

About this book

Between pulpit and palace.. the tale of the voice never completed. Can the word build a state, or is it sometimes the shackle wrapping around its owner's neck? In this seventh part of the "Thus He Spoke" series, Dr. Amr El-Hilali takes us on an exceptional journey behind the scenes of the noisiest year in modern Egyptian history. It is no mere chronicle of speeches, but a living dissection of power's soul oscillating between the group's legacy and the institution's majesty. The book walks us through the Ittihadiya Palace corridors in 2013, where we watch President Mohamed Morsi's transformations; he who began a rebel doffing his shield before the masses in the square, ending up besieged by his own words between oratory's classical Arabic and popular pleading's vernacular. The author sails with literary mastery through the "subjectivity" wrapping that era, revealing how promises turned into domination strategies, and how eloquence was harnessed to ideology in crisis moments. Between this work's covers you will find the complete texts.