Articles by Sabry Hafez

• The New Egyptian Novel
  • Sabry Hafez

  in NLR 64, July-August 2010, pp. 46-62
  Subjects: Arab World , Literature , Egypt
  

  The slums of Cairo find their homology in a new genre of narrative fiction, argues Sabry Hafez. Striking formal innovations of a generation raised under the asphyxiating rule of the Mubarak dictatorship.

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• An Arabian Master
  • Sabry Hafez

  in NLR 37, January-February 2006, pp. 39-66
  Subjects: Arab World , Biography and Intellectual History , Literature
  

  The remarkable life and literary career of Abd al-Rahman Munif, author of the Cities of Salt quintet. Sabry Hafez charts the emergence of Munif’s searing fictions. Evocations of desert traditions, foreign interference, the deformities of despotism and lessons of resistance.

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• The Novel, Politics and Islam
  • Sabry Hafez

  in NLR 5, September-October 2000, pp. 117-141
  Subjects: Arab World , Literature , Religion , Egypt
  

  The astonishing story of the uproar in Egypt over the publication of a Syrian novel set in Algeria—a work of literature as trigger for political crisis and polemical turmoil, two decades after it was written, in a landscape completely transformed. Haydar Haydar’s fiction as tuning-fork of stark dissonances of time and outlook in the Arab world.

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  Also available in Spanish