... Ahmed Alaidy Alaa Al Aswany Naguib Mahfouz Nasserism Sadat era This article considers the narrative structures of Egyptian novels of the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century. By doing so, I argue that these novels represent a certain return to realism. Insofar as they depict...

... of a social tendency” ( Lukács 144 ). Thus, while the hybrid fictions of Sadat-era novelists like Yusuf al-Qa'id fuse modernist, postmodern, and realist techniques, their fictions are realist in representing events in their specificity and in their relation to a “larger historical process.” By this definition...

... and French strongholds. Ulka Anjaria, Noha Radwan, and Eleni Coundouriotis describe the existence or emergence of literary realisms in contemporary India and Nigeria, Egypt under Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, and across the continent of Africa. Curiously, their efforts are facilitated by a lack of prior...