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US greats pressed into service
For the second time in recent years, US literature is being pressed into the service of international relations, notes the Guardian. In association with the US State Department, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced details of a literary cultural exchange with Egypt as part of the NEA's Big Read campaign to encourage reading among American citizens.
The Big Read Egypt/US will involve reciprocal promotions of three celebrated American writers in Egypt, and just the one Egyptian writer in the States. Naguib Mahfouz's The Thief and the Dogs will be America's reading book.
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