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The Book of Sleep - Haytham El Wardany (Seagull Books) magazine not only spectatorsTranslated by Robin Moger Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human statesmetaphorically called deaths shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolencebe envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be? Written in the spring of 2013, as the Egyptian government of President