British researcher Kit Victoria McDonald Daniels [the name is a transliteration from the Arabic, could not be found on the internet] had chosen the stories of Youssef Al-Sharouni to be the subject of her PhD thesis for the University of London. Al-Sharouni expressed rejection of the researcher´s attempts to draw out imaginary dilemmas in the relation between the self and the other from his stories. These dilemmas, as McDonald claims, are caused by Al-Sharouni being a Copt “pressingly surrounded by an oppressing Muslim majority."