Maadi

I mean, he, he, he becomes, uh, the, the, the martyr Sayyid Qutb and, and the actual act of the hanging and the violence of the hanging, it becomes a sort of symbolic moment that says everything that some people want to think about the, the repressive, decadent, hypocritical, un-Islamic regime and rulers.

Now, among those who are horrified by the hanging of Qutb and someone who'd really admired his writing, uh, is someone from exactly the world that Qutb was not part of, which is the smart Cairo suburb of Maadi.

And in Maadi, age 14, there is a bookish, bespectacled, brilliant, top of his class, um, boy who comes from one of the grandest medical and clerical families in Egypt, very much the kind of people who are creating, uh, Nasser's world.

Um, and yet he's also very much connected with the, the world of Al-Azhar.

His, his great uncle had been a Grand Imam, uh, of the most, uh, renowned Islamic university in the world, but also in, in Egypt.

Uh, Zawahiri is born in almost in a sporting club world of croquet lawns and jacarandas.

Sure, but he, but he, he, he's very slightly on the, on the r- wrong side of the tracks.

Uh, literally, uh, there's a railway that goes through Maadi.