1981 novel by Gamal al-Ghitani
The Khittat as a strategy for mapping the city
The city as a metaphor for an economy
The Cultural Policy of the Infitah
Multiple Voices, Escaping Genres by Going Between Genres
The capture of culture by censorship and the state
Middle Arabic had its own norms see:
Lentin, Jérôme and Jacques Grand’Henry (eds.). 2008.
Moyen arabe et variétés mixtes
de l’arabe à travers l’histoire
. Louvain-la-neuve: Institut orientaliste.
Mejdell,Gunvor.2006.
MixedStylesinSpokenArabicinEgypt
,
SomewherebetweenOrder
and Chaos
[Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 48], Brill 2006
The point being that Ghitani is recreating retroactive fictions.
