'The Queue' Imagines a Dystopian Future for Egypt
The Leonard Lopate Show | May 25, 2016
In her debut novel, The Queue, Egyptian journalist, psychiatrist and visual artist Basma Abdel Aziz tells the story of an unnamed country where citizens must receive permission from a government authority known as "the Gate" in order to complete basic tasks. Citizens endlessly wait in a line outside the Gate for a response. A review on Qantara describes The Queue as a mix of "George Orwell′s 1984 ... with the rich, detailed portrait of Cairo in Naguib Mahfouz′s Trilogy."
