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Based on the fact that the author of Beer in the Snooker Club was, like the book’s protagonist, both a member of Egypt’s landowning class and a card-carrying member of the Communist Party–one who had to exile himself from his country for fear of imprisonment–what do you make of the figure of Ram? In many ways Ram is modeled after Waguih Ghali himself but seems torn between political activism, on the one hand, and the frivolous lifestyle of his class on the other.
How seriously can we take Ram politically and what is the author ultimately saying, in your view, about the Egyptian elite that he alternately condemns and sentimentalizes throughout the book?
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