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يبدو أن «مصر» على موعد دائم مع الآكلين على كل الموائد، سارقي الثورات، الذين يتخذون الشعب مَطِيَّة لمطامعهم، فهذا «العربجي» يضرب بسوطه أعناق انتهازيي السياسة المصرية عقب ثورة ١٩١٩م، فيذيع سرهم ويكشفهم أمام العامَّة بأسلوبٍ أدبيٍّ ساخر، يأسر العقل والروح، وهكذا يمضي منتقدًا مجتمع «القاهرة» وأخلاق شبابها وبناتها.

In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing. Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind drunk, whilst Alexandra and her sister, the only survivors of five children, alternately take up target practice and sing Rod Stewart songs from sun bleached rocks.

This is the story of the "Benin Bronzes", their creation, theft, and what should happen to them now. When first exhibited in London, they caused a sensation and helped reshape European attitudes towards Africa, challenging the prevailing view of the continent as "backward" and without culture. But seeing them in the British Museum today is, in the words of one Benin City artist, like "visiting relatives behind bars". In a time of fevered debate about the legacies of empire, loot, museums, and history, what does the future hold for the Bronzes themselves?