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Cyberculture And Agency In Salmawy’S Butterfly Wings, Elkheshen’S SabʿAt Ayyām Fil Taḥrīr And Soueif's Cairo: My City, Our Revolution

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

Mohamed Salmawy’s novel Butterfly Wings that was published in January 2011 predicted the 25 January Revolution in Egypt. As for Hisham Elkheshen’s novel Sabʿat Ayyām fil Taḥrīr which translates in Arabic to 7 Days in Tahrir, was written after the ousting of Mubarak. Both are political novels that revolve around socio-political conflict and upheavals in Egypt from 2010-2011. The third work, Soueif's revolutionary memoir Cairo: My City, Our Revolution was originally written in English in 2012. In her Memoir, she focuses on the eighteen days of the Egyptian Revolution and her active participation in it together with the participation of …