Seeds of Corruption
2003; University of Oklahoma; Volume: 77; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/40158015
ISSN1945-8134
AutoresJamal En‐nehas, Sabri Moussa, Mona N. Mikhail,
Tópico(s)Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
ResumoTh e English translations of works by Sabri Mousa, Ibtihal Salem, and May Temissany off er new insights into the political and economic challenges facing modern Egyptian society. Th e rich material and prose refl ect the process of globalization sweeping Egypt, poverty, gender inequality, and women’s sexuality. While Seeds of Corruption narrates the tale of the process of modernizing Egypt from the nineteenth century until King Farouq in 1952, Children of the Waters takes us to the daily lives of Egyptians under the regimes of Nasser and Sadat. Contemporary Egyptian society and waves of globalization are the subject of Dunyazad. Seeds of Corruption is set in the eastern desert, Darhib, in Egypt and tells the story of Nicola, a man without a country. Th rough Nicola, the main character, Mousa tells an enchanted story about the corruption of urban life and the purity of the desert and its people. Nicola grows up in Istanbul, the son of Russian emigres, and then lives for some years in Italy. He marries Ilya, and they have a daughter, also named Ilya. Infl uenced by his friend Mario, a mining engineer, Nicola becomes obsessed with stories about the Nile, its desert, and the mountains containing a vast variety of minerals and ores. Leaving his family behind, Nicola joins Mario on a ship that carries them to a new life in Darhib. Nicola’s trajectory takes place against the backdrop of the westernization movement that began in Egypt in the nineteenth century. Th e determined and learned Nicola explores the desert, obtains a permit to drill the mountains for minerals and eventually becomes the owner of one of the mines. Nicola recruits men from the desert tribes, and his
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