"Who was I when I wasn�t looking"
Friday, February 07, 2014
Harvard Square: A Novel, is narrated by an Egyptian Jew from Alexandria. He is 26, already a looser and a failed graduate student. He has a second chance at passing his comprehensives and pursuing his doctorate at Harvard University. It is 1977 and the narrator, never named, tells his tale of loneliness and failure, from the position of an observer, who has distanced himself from others and receded into a cynicism to allow for justifications of his demise if he fails his exams again in January 1978.
Figures released by the country’s electoral management body have shown that a total of 1, 037, 684 people have registered to vote.However, eligible voters could be discouraged by events leading to the voting day like poor execution of advance voting amid talks that the elections could be unfair.There have also been threats by certain opposition politicians that shall the elections not be free and fair, they will halt them.Despite these...