Our literary scene is catching the attention of the int’l press

The international press is taking a brief break from reporting on Egypt’s economy to focus on a forgotten literary great, with the NewYorkTimes showcasing Egyptian author Iman Mersal’s efforts to work out the mystery behind the underappreciated writer Enayat Al Zayyat in Traces of Enayat, the English translation of which is set to hit US bookshops today. After stumbling across and buying Al Zayyat’s Love and Silence by chance thirty years ago in a Cairo market, Mersal has been captivated by the unacknowledged author from Egypt’s post-1952 revolution golden era for literature who ended her life in 1963 after having her manuscript rejected from a publisher.

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