ABSTRACT
Disputes over sexual behavior often become the vehicles for displacing social anxieties, and discharging their attendant emotional intensity. Consequently, sexuality should be treated with special respect in times of great social stress. Running throughout al-Ghayti's arguments, in fact, are a number of ideological threads that are frequently articulated by members of Egypt's nationalist intelligentsia. The link between al-Ghayti and nationalist discourse has to do with the place of Arab Jews, whether in the Arab countries or inside Israel. A closer look at one of Danna's songs will serve to suggest some of the pleasures her music might offer a young Egyptian consumer. Egyptian universities, for instance, continue to boycott Israeli scholars, and although Israel established an academic center in Cairo in the early 1980s, it remains unthinkable for an Israeli scholar to deliver a public lecture at any Egyptian university. Numerous significant issues continue to animate anti-Israeli feelings and receive extensive coverage in the press.
