Visiting El Cabina for the first time in 2012 marked the beginning of my love affair with Alexandria. Completely transformed from an abandoned building that once housed the air-conditioning unit…
Novelist Sonallah Ibrahim is one of Egypt's most innovative and significant writers. In works such as “That Smell” (1966), “The Committee” (1981), “Zaat” (1992) and “Sharaf” (1997), he combines originality…
There was a very popular television commercial for an Egyptian ceramics company in the early 1990s, which used “demolish your old bathroom” as its catch phrase. This expression then permeated…
The Queue is evocative of George Orwell’s dystopias, of Kafkaesque surrealism, and of the dark satire of Sonallah Ibrahim’s The Committee, but could perhaps best be described as dystopic realism.
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