The Book of SleepHaytham El Wardany, translation Robin Moger What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence be 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 Mohammed Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread