CAIRO — The discussion started decorously enough. The novelist Alaa al-Aswany had screened “The Square,” the Oscar-nominated documentary about the Egyptian revolution, at his monthly salon two weeks ago, and he opened by lamenting that the film focused on just a handful of articulate characters instead of the masses of “simple people.” And as in almost every conversation here about the “The Square,” it did not take long before the fighting began.
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