Egypt’s terrorist sexpotAFTER centuries of abuse,the Nile river will finally obtain its day in court. At a concert in the United Arab Emirates, a fan asked Sherine Abdel-Wahab to perform her patriotic song “Mashrebtesh Min Nilha?” (“Havent You Drunk From the Nile?”). The Egyptian chanteuse replied with a joke approximately the notoriously polluted river: “You’ll obtain bilharzia [a disease caused by parasitic worms] if you do. Better to drink Evian, and she said. It was sound advice. Though the government insists that the water is secure,people are often poisoned by it. But her comments sickened a lawyer called Hany Gad, who sued Ms Wahab for insulting Egypt. She will stand trial in December.
In many countries this case would be laughed out of court. No one has standing to sue on behalf of a resentful river. But in Egypt judges are often eager to restrict free speech and promote a paranoid strain of nationalism. In 2014 they investigated a puppet after...
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Source: economist.com