Shafik’s appearance, on a talk show on an independent TV channel one night in early March, seemed to be an attempt to establish a new political tone: reasonable, open, and accessible-strikingly different from the lofty authoritarianism of the Mubarak era. The Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafik, had been in office only a month, having been appointed in a cabinet reshuffle that was among Mubarak’s last, desperate efforts to appease the crowds in Tahrir Square. Photograph by Miguel Ángel SánchezĪ few weeks after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, the novelist Alaa Al Aswany found himself arguing with Egypt’s Prime Minister on live TV. “A novel is the life of the people,” he says. Alaa Al Aswany’s work is very direct politically.
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