Folk puppets keeping heritage of Egyptian satire alive In an era of on-screen entertainment, a simple glove puppet named Aragoz still lures Egyptian audiences with comic sketches showing how wits and skill can defeat the thuggish and corrupt. Recounting stories with a thought-provoking moral in their tale, puppeteers evoke peels of laughter from spectators, mainly children, as they enact Aragoz's exploits some of which date back centuries to Ottoman times. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES