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Podcast: New Books in Biography & Memoir
Episode: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, "Minority Of One: The Unchaining of an Arab Mind" (2020)
Description: “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”― George Orwell, 1984How do people change? How does someone living in a closed and oppressive society develop insights and a worldview at odds with everything around them and everyone they know?This is the journey of change for one such person.Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, born in 1989 in Cairo, Egypt received a conservative Muslim educati...