Having seen veiled, segregated Egyptian women [p. xi] leave home [to go] to work and participate in demonstrations, alongside with Egyptian men, demanding boldly and with determination their country’s rights –
The revolution that we expect [to happen] in contemporary Egyptian literature will aim to do away with the static, obscure, and hackneyed old literature.
AR: ṯawraẗ, ʔadab, ʕaṣrī, miṣrī (Miṣr / Miṣriyyaẗ), qadīm, ǧāmid (ǧumūd), mutašābih (tašābuh), mubtaḏal (ibtiḏāl) EN: do away with the static, obscure, and hackneyed old literature