““Something Arabs and Westerners certainly do is what one might have thought someone like Amis, considering the kind of fictional world he creates, would take a greater interest in, namely, that they live under rulers who, under different pretexts and with varying degrees of severity, seek to curb the unruly sex urge as a way of maintaining social control. What people in the West and the Middle East have in common, that is to say, is the gap between propaganda and reality, the vast gulf between public and private morality. In other words: hypocrisy.””
