The situation of Egyptian intellectuals has become neither an enemy nor a friend. “writers” have turned into mere “scribes” in the government cabinet.
Whoever tried to be a writer was marginalized, and assassinated morally and materially. The American-Soviet idea is to “create an army of thinkers and creators” whose mission will be “to think and inject visions” that will prolong the life of the regime. The symbols of this army were university professors and researchers in the industrial and agricultural fields.