![]() ![]() Companies are forced to changed what they produce, individuals need to get signed forms for even the most mundane matters, and little by little the Gate forces its way into every aspect of the city’s life. The Gate issues a series of edicts that become ever more baffling and hard to obey. In The Queue, we are transported to a strange near future where the civilian government has been taken over by a faceless entity called the Gate. One of the most lauded in the West is The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, an Egyptian writer and social activist. ![]() ![]() The dashed hopes of that widespread popular uprising have found their expression in pessimistic novels such as Otared, (reviewed in an earlier post) and several other notable works of fiction. Since the Arab Spring, there has been an upsurge in dystopian fiction coming out of the Middle East. ![]()
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