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A riveting novel that is both an indictment and an elegy, a second-person memoir of Nasser's final months in the voice of his former prisoner.   In 1959, at the age of twenty-two, Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim was imprisoned by Gamal Abdel Nasser's regime. Over the following five years in prison in Egypt's Western Desert, Ibrahim kept diaries that he smuggled out on cigarette papers. In this novel, Ibrahim takes up Nasser as a fictional c...

A novel of the invasion and occupation of Egypt by Napoleonic France as seen through the eyes of a young Egyptian. The Napoleonic-era French invasion and occupation of Egypt are often seen as the Arab world's first encounter with the military and technological prowess of the West--and it came as a terrible shock. The Turban and the Hat tells the story of those three tumultuous years from the perspective of a young Egyptian living in late-eight...

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Sonallah Ibrahim's 2000 masterpiece offers readers a view of twentieth-century world events through the diary pages of his titular character.

The year is 1973. An Egyptian historian, Dr. Shukri, pursues a year of non-degree graduate studies in Moscow, the presumed heart of the socialist utopia. Through his eyes, the reader receives a guided tour of the sordid stagnation of Brezhnev-era Soviet life: intra-Soviet ethnic tensions, Russian retirees unable to afford a tin of meat, a trio of drunks splitting a bottle of vodka on the sidewalk, a Kirgiz roommate who brings his Russian girlf...

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Set in the turbulent years before the 1952 revolution that would overthrow King Farouk and bring Gamal Abdel Nasser to power, Stealth - by Sonallah Ibrahim, one of Egypt's most respected and uncompromising novelists - is a gripping story seen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy. A young Egyptian's coming of age proves halting and uncertain as he fails to outgrow dependence on his aging father and tries to come to terms with the absence ...

Nell'appartamento piccolo-borghese di un condominio del Cairo, Zhat vive una vita affollata di eventi piccoli e grandi, popolata di amiche, vicini di casa, negozianti del quartiere, le cui esistenze si intrecciano con la sua. Sullo sfondo della Storia - che, senza che lei se ne renda conto, determina la sua vita - Zhat, immersa nella quotidianità, amante dei pettegolezzi, preoccupata della spesa, è un personaggio pieno di colore e di ironia. R...

That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim's modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential novels written in Arabic since WWII. Composed after a five-year term in prison, the semi-autobiographical story follows a recently released political prisoner as he wanders through Cairo, adrift in his native city. Living under house arrest, he tries to write of his tortuous experience, but instead smokes, spies on the neighbors, visits old lovers, and marve...

Writing in an intriguingly symbolic and minimalist style, author Sonallah Ibrahim has been called the Egyptian Kafka. And no wonder. This wry take on Kafka's The Trial revolves around its narrator's attempts to petition successfully the elusive ruling body of his country, known simply as "the committee". Consequences for his actions range from the absurd to the hideous.In Kafkaesque fashion, Ibrahim offers an unbroken first-person narrative re...

Ein etwa vierzigjähriger Ägypter stellt sich in Kairo freiwillig dem Prüfungsausschuss, einem von Militärs durchsetzten mächtigen Gremium. In der Gewissheit, dass sein Schicksal von dem bevorstehenden Gespräch abhängt, hat er sich ein ganzes Jahr lang auf diesen Tag vorbereitet, seine Kenntnisse in Literatur, Kunst, Philosophie, Wirtschaft aufgefrischt und sich auch dem Studium der vom Ausschuss verwendeten Sprache gewidmet. Vor dem Ausschuss ...