- Ibrāhīm Aṣlān (1935 – 2012, Egypt) – Mālik al-Ḥazīn (1983, English trans. The Heron, 2005). Yūsuf, a writer, is the hero of this novel that is set on the eve of the January 1977 Bread Riots which took place in Egypt and Jordan in protest the International Monetary Fund’s austerity programs and demand for privatization of state-owned sectors (reference). As Yūsuf observes the lives of the men and women in the Imbaba district where he lives, he gets caught up in student demonstrations and protests corruption and rising prices (reference).
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- Zuzana Kratka. 2006 “Book Reviews: Zuzana Kratka reviews two novels by Ibrahim Aslan.” Banipal 27, https://www.banipal.co.uk/book_reviews/22/%20zuzana-kratka-reviews-two-novels-by-ibrahim-aslan/ (last accessed 3 March 2019)