Friday, April 24, 2009

Sami Sharaf's memoirs

I read the second volume (840 pages long) of Sami Sharaf's memoirs. It is probably one of the best portraits of Nasser in any language and it has the best description of the Nasserist regime. The memoirs needed better editing and organizations: a few ancedotes in the second volume were also told in the first volume. I wish that there was more on his experience in Sadat's jails and about the trumped up charges against Sharaf and his comrades in what was to be called "Center of Power's Conspiracy."