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Sonallah Ibrahim, Egyptian Novelist of Irony and Dissent, Dies at 88
Starting with “That Smell” in 1966, he wrote with stark power about themes of repression in the Egyptian police state.
The Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim in 1999. He chronicled his country’s submission to dictatorship and materialism with deadpan irony.
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