Here Is a Body
by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from the Arabic
by Jonathan Wright.
Hoopoe/American University in Cairo Press, 333 pp., $18.95 (paper)
The Queue
by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from the Arabic
by Elisabeth Jaquette. Melville House, 217 pp., $15.95 (paper)
You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works, 2011–2021
by Alaa Abd el-Fattah, translated from the Arabic
by a collective, with a foreword by Naomi Klein.
Seven Stories, 398 pp., $18.95 (paper)
The Book of Sleep
by Haytham El Wardany, translated from the Arabic
by Robin Moger. Seagull, 161 pp., $21.50; $17.00 (paper)
I visited Cairo in late November 2021, after a two-year absence. I knew to expect changes, and I found them. The area around Tahrir Square, emptied of most of its cultural life, has become…
