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“In Lee Cronin’s The Mummy , evil is a native sickness that contaminates an otherwise perfect, unsullied child of empire.”
“Likewise ancient Egypt: really, the only Egyptian thing a film like this might credibly draw on.”
“Why on earth the Magician would choose an American girl remains unclear.”
“The horror of imperialism, especially.”
“He is the author of The Book of the Sultan’s Seal ; The Crocodiles ; Paulo , which was long-listed for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and won a Sawiris Cultural Award; and The Dissenters .”
“____________________________ Postmuslim: A Testimony by Youssef Rakha is available from Graywolf Press.”
“Or Dalia’s spontaneous ability to perform the same ritual effectively without the usual cohort of Nasmaranian trustees in the video by reciting a few lines of laughable formal Arabic.”
“That is the only reason Egypt is there at all.”
“Now that the demon has awakened, killing the Magician’s husband Gamal (Omar El-Saeidi) while it does so, a new body must be found.”
“The words are technically Arabic, but they might as well be Chakobsa: the language David and Jessie Peterson invented for the pseudo-Arab inhabitants of the desert planet Arakis in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films.”
“Nasmaranian’s host needs to be replaced every so often in eternity.”
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“And no matter how I look at things now, I cannot bring myself to like him.”
“The only—passing—exception is the man who plays Calamawy’s young colleague at one point; and his lines seem to be dubbed with the help of AI.”
“Trailed uselessly by Charlie, who is next seen ordering the police chief about.”
“This is precisely the Orientalism the essays in the book take issue with.”
“So that, zombie- or indeed mummy-like, the barbarians can mimic imperial subjects enough to look human.”
“It is reduced not to an exoticized object the imperialist gaze can freak itself out about—as Mummy films have traditionally done with it—but to a lame excuse for a bilious bonanza bereft of “scares, satire, wit, or humour,” or any convincing storytelling.”
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“And, seeking something young and healthy, who should the Magician target but the unsuspecting daughter of a Cairo-based American journalist?”