![]() The book is a project of social realism, describing the weight of injustice suffered by the poor during the last years of Mubarak’s reign. His first novel Taxi quickly became a bestseller when it was first published in 2006 and has enjoyed enduring popularity.The book is currently on its 23rd printing, with over 200,000 copies sold in Arabic, and has been translated into ten other languages. Why? Because you were reading a book, and I know everybody who reads books in this country.’”Īl-Khamissi is a somewhat surprising character to speak about the sparse literary readership in Egypt. I went over to say hello, and he told me ‘I was sure I knew you. “I was once sitting on a plane when I felt somebody looking at me,” Khaled al-Khamissi recounts. ![]()
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