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Simon Hughes - Chasing Salah: TAW Special

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🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Neil Atkinson joined in the studio by Th Athletic's Senior Football Writer and author Simon Hughes to chat about his latest book 'Chasing Salah'. 'Chasing Salah' is a biography of Liverpool's Egyptian King, a book that looks deep in to what has made Salah the player and person he is, his importance at Liverpool, Egypt and further afield, and the weight of influence his name carries. Subscribe to The Anfield Wrap for more on Liverpool's 24/25 season… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Neil Atkinson with Sykes to talk talk about chasing Sala, the biography that Sai has written about

0:59.6

Mo Sala. It is one, Cy, where, you know, your writing's always, always to me quite fascinating

1:06.9

and your writing's always about more than one thing, which is very useful for a book like this because Mosella is very much about more than one thing. And I think this goes all the way back to, and it's captured within the book, the complexity of Mosella's identity. You know, Mosella, we see him as an Egyptian. Egypt has a complicated relationship with Africa, North Africa, the Middle East.

1:29.5

Most Salad is depicted, obviously, as an Arab, depicted as a Muslim,

1:33.7

now can be genuinely referred to as a little public, given the length of time here

1:38.0

and the way in which he's raised as children, seems really engaged and open with the world.

1:42.6

So to start with Egypt, because that's where Sala starts,

1:46.6

you know, you've really captured a sense of Egypt as it was when he was growing up,

1:50.2

but also the fact that Egypt itself during the period of Sala's career

1:53.4

is a massively changed place.

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