from aps:

KAFEYA!

Brian Edwards profiles a new generation of writers in a special portfolio on literary life in Cairo today in the new issue of APS. With new work by Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Mohamed El-Fakhrany, Ibrahim El Batout, Magdy El Shafee, and more.

“These writers are a generation that came of age with (sometimes after) the massive arrival of the Internet and digital technologies in Cairo, and in the wake of the shift in global discourse about big words like democracy, Islam, and war. And while many of the topics they address in their work seem much smaller—a sexual liaison, street children stealing fruit, women calling on each other for tea, two boys playing a video game—these are not writers unconcerned with the social or the political. Rather, their work is conceived differently in relation to the big questions. Perhaps it is the enormity of Cairo, expanding at asymptotic rates via apparently uncontrollable urbanization, or the response to its social and political zahma; or perhaps they echo others in their generation internationally who have become cynical about what art and writing can do and seek something different. But the big pronouncements here are more muted or ironic… and sometimes they are even refused.”

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