WebbBasma Abdel Aziz wrote the novel The Queue, a dystopian science fiction novel that shows an oppressed people who have been taken over by a central authority that exerts control over every aspect of the people’s lives. WebbMelville House. 2016. 217 pages. Building on an Egyptian literary dystopic tradition, Basma Abdel Aziz transforms queuing into a metaphor for the pervasive institutional and moral corruption of Egyptian life post–Arab …
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Basma Abdel Aziz (Arabic: بسمة عبد العزيز, born 1976 in Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian writer, psychiatrist, visual artist and human rights activist, nicknamed 'the rebel'. She lives in Cairo and is a weekly columnist for Egypt's al-Shorouk newspaper. She writes in Arabic, and her novels The Queue and Here Is A Body were published in English. For her literary and nonfiction work, she was awarded the Sawiris Cultural Award and other distinctions. Webbavg rating 3.94 — 3,694 ratings — published 2015. Want to Read. Rate this book. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Escaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus, #1) by. Nicky Drayden (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1 time as bookclub-feminist-sff) avg rating 3.79 — 1,580 ratings — published 2024. shutter online
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Webb23 dec. 2024 · Western imagination appears to court two streams of dystopia; young blonde teenager in a nuclear wasteland, and middle-aged man against some version of technocratic authoritarianism. In The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz provides a refreshing and powerful narrative that forces a re-examination of mainstream apocalypse. In a pseudo … WebbWritten with dark, subtle humor, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even those faithful to it. Categories Fiction - Dystopian Fiction - Political Fiction - Literary Webb21 feb. 2024 · Aziz’s work, The Queue is a unique examination of an authoritarian society, with mirrors Egypt’s political crisis. Though the writing was sometimes a bit repetitive, … shutter online subtitrat in romana