- ʿAzzaldīn Shukrī Fashīr (1966-, Egypt) – Kul Hadha al-Harāʾ (‘All that nonsense’, 2017). Evoking A Thousand and One Nights, this novel shed light on the many taboos of Egyptian society. It tells of a ‘male Scheherazade’, ʿUmar, who recounts to his girlfriend, the American-Egyptian Amal, stories of his friends’ imprisonment and the Arab Spring revolution, including the August 2013 Rabaa massacre and the harassments that took place (reference). The story takes place in 24 hours, during which the two do not leave the bed and ʿUmar’s stories are only interrupted by sex, eating, and napping (also in L: Cultural and Literary Heritage: Folktales: One Thousand and One Nights).
- Muḥammad al-Ḥajj’s (?, Egypt) short story collection La Aḥad Yarthī li Qiṭat al-Madīnah (2018, English trans. Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats, 2019), entails six stories set in the summer of 2013, when the Egyptian President Morsi was ousted following protests. Each story focuses on several individuals roaming the streets of Cairo.
Refrences:
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- Aljazeera. 2017. “‘Kul hatha al-Harāʾ’.. Thawrah Maṣr wa Abṭābilhā Sardiyan.” www.aljazeera.net, 2 February 2017, https://www.aljazeera.net/news/cultureandart/2017/2/12/كل-هذا-الهراء-ثورة-مصر-وأبطالها-سرديا#:~:text=يستطيع%20كل%20قارئ%20أن%20يجد,2012%20بعنوان%20″باب%20الخروج (last accessed 27 August, 2022)