During the first two decades of the 21st century an increasing amount of narratives termed as Arabic dystopian fiction appeared on the Arabic literary scene, with a greater part authored by Egyptian writers. However, what characterises/marks a work as a dystopia? This paper investigates the dystopian nature of a selection of Egyptian literary works within the frame of the dystopian narrative tradition. The article begins by introducing the features of the traditional literary dystopias as they will be used in the analysis. It then gives a brief overview of the development of the genre in the Arabic literature. The discussion that follows highlights common elements and identifies specific themes in six Egyptian novels selected for the analys...
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During the first two decades of the 21st century an increasing amount of narratives termed as Arabic...
Dystopian fiction as intended in the Western literary tradition is a 20 th century phenomenon on the...
This article is a study of Ahmad Khaled Tawfik's 2008 best-selling novel Utopia within the context o...
Unlike Utopia, dystopia represents a city full of poverty, frustration and misery in fiction; i...
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This paper analyses several novels devoted to the revolutions of Arab Spring in Egypt, Libya, Syria ...
© the author(s). The fact is that up-to date there are no researches concerning avant-garde prose of...
Arabic contemporary literature is experiencing changes of great interest. Writers explore new ways, ...
During the first two decades of the 21st century an increasing amount of narratives termed as Arabic...
Dystopian fiction as intended in the Western literary tradition is a 20 th century phenomenon on the...
This article is a study of Ahmad Khaled Tawfik's 2008 best-selling novel Utopia within the context o...
Unlike Utopia, dystopia represents a city full of poverty, frustration and misery in fiction; i...
This dissertation examines a literary mode of terror that has recently flourished in Iraqi and Egypt...
The Cultural Nahḍah age (Arab Renaissance) has represented, throughout the Arab world, the speculati...
The article presents an overview of the new dystopia genre in Arabic literature as well as the main...
Many generations of Euro-American Egyptologists have investigated ancient Egyptian compositions from...
The history of modern Arabic literature is not very long; its mature phase, beginning approximately ...
In the aftermath the 25th January Revolution of 2011, two Egyptian dystopian novels stand out as par...
The Arabic Cultural program hosts novelists Basma Abdel Aziz, Mohamed Rabie and Na’il al-Tukhi to di...
The article discusses the novel 2025. An-Nida al-Akhir [2025. The Last Call] written by a young Egyp...
This paper analyses several novels devoted to the revolutions of Arab Spring in Egypt, Libya, Syria ...
© the author(s). The fact is that up-to date there are no researches concerning avant-garde prose of...
Arabic contemporary literature is experiencing changes of great interest. Writers explore new ways, ...