The novel, politics and Islam

Authors
Hafez, S
Citation
S. Hafez, The novel, politics and Islam, NEW LEFT R, (5), 2000, pp. 117
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Politucal Science & public Administration
Journal title
NEW LEFT REVIEW
ISSN journal
00286060 → ACNP
Issue
5
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-6060(200009/10):5<117:TNPAI>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
The astonishing story of the uproar in Egypt over the publication of a Syri an novel set in Algeria-a work of literature as trigger for political crisi s and polemical turmoil, two decades after it was written, in a landscape c ompletely transformed. Haydar Haydar's fiction as tuning-fork of stark diss onances of time and outlook in the Arab world.