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Arab writers depict Cleopatra’s court as a place of intellectual seminars and scholarship rather than the more traditional vision of kohl-rimmed eyes and hedonistic intrigue..... Kate Spence, a lecturer in Egyptology at Cambridge University’s Faculty of Oriental Studies, described Dr el-Daly’s work as very important.

Hog wash. Limited, either-or thinking about women is characteristic of Arabic men and feminist women, and has no basis in the real world where beautiful, intelligent women are rising to the tops of corporations and governments.

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Kate Spence, a lecturer in Egyptology at Cambridge University’s Faculty of Oriental Studies, described Dr el-Daly’s work as very important.

Perhaps Kate is a homely woman who has a prejudice against accomplished beauties.