ABSTRACT
In the UK, most Egyptian postgraduate students live in Egyptian ‘cloisters’, quite detached from the golden opportunities available to them at the expense of the Egyptian taxpayer. In all probability, not one of the hundreds of Egyptians who obtained their doctorates from British universities bothered to read such basic literary works as those of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Byron, Wordsworth or Dickens. It is also a safe bet that none of them became anywhere near as familiar with the treasures of museums as they did with the layout of department stores. University professors who lived in Britain for years have admitted to me that they never bothered to follow the political, literary or cultural events in that country throughout their stay.
