AUTHORS
Wagdi al-Komi
Wagdi al-Komi began his career as a writer in 2008. He
has published five novels and two short story collections.
His recent collection won the best short story collection
prize at the Cairo International Book Fair 2018. As well
as being a literary author, al-Komi is also a freelance
journalist and a workshop instructor at the GoetheInstitut in Cairo, where he was chosen to lead a workshop
on short stories twice in 2018 and 2019.
Rhythm | Iqa’a
A daring novel on the political turmoil in Egypt during
the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and onwards. The
protagonist is a middle-aged Coptic Christian woman
who aspires to retrieve her family’s properties in the
heart of Cairo. She marries a well-known religious clerk
and converts to Islam, only to find out that her husband
is involved in the kidnapping of Coptic girls and forcing
them to convert.
This is one of the first novels to courageously discuss the
state of Egypt in detail, taking the revolution as its starting
point. It then moves to when different parties ruled and
the power clash and conflict that took place between
them. The book further gives the reader a glimpse of the
divisions between and within the factions of society, as
well as the state of puzzlement in the national sentiment
of the people.
A brave novel that discusses details of the post-revolution
era but also tells us about the people who lived it.
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