Natasha Smith has a death wish. Barely a month and half following what she described as a “horrific sexual and physical attack” in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the foolish young British journalist is planning to return to the scene of the crime. Smith insists she has learned the hard lesson from her last visit to Egypt, a nation that has fallen into the hands of radical Islamists. “I was overambitious,” she says. “I was also cursed with ‘Invincibility of Youth’ syndrome, with symptoms including naivety, impulsiveness, recklessness, carelessness, idealism and underestimating danger and difficulty.” Yet, she’s going back to the land...