This essay examines how contemporary Egyptian novels by Khaled Al Khamissi and Ahmed Alaidy re-deploy the maqama (assemblies) form in order to satirise corruption and in oder to generate a collective, democratic consciousness.

First Author: Awadalla, Maggie; March-Russell, Paul

Attributed to: Radical Distrust: A Cultural Analysis of the Emotional, Psychological and Linguistic Formations of Religious and Political Extremism funded by ESRC

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Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: The Postcolonial Short Story: Contemporary Essays (2012)

Page Reference: 111-132

ISBN: 9780230313385