Literature: prolonging the crisis in the Arab world?

Mona Naggar examines the absence and presence of political Islam in contemporary writing in the Arab world. Turki al-Hamad, Alaa al-Aswani, Khalid al-Barri, and Fadhil al-Azzawi make appearances, and several Algerian writers are mentioned: Rachid Boudjedra, Waciny Laredj, Tahar Ouettar, Salim Bachi, and Assia Djebar.