This is the 18t edition of the online magazin Minbar Ibn Rushd
Mustafa Khalifa I wrote most of these diaries in the desert prison. But the word “wrote” isn’t quite accurate. There are neither pens nor paper to write on in the desert prison. This colossal structure—made up of Courtyard Zero, seven more courtyards, thirty-seven dormitories, new, unnumbered dormitories, cells in the fifth courtyard, and still more […]
Continue ReadingRadwa Ashour PDF East of the Mediterranean (1975), a novel about torture and abuse of political prisoners, is probably the most widely read prison novel in Arabic literature. It was the author’s second novel. His first novel published 2 years earlier, The Trees and the Assassination of Marzouq (1973), was about a man who flees […]
Continue ReadingDear readers This special edition of Minbar Ibn Rushd is dedicated to prison literature, the subject of this year’s Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought (2015). We begin with an essay by the late Egyptian author and literary critic Radwa Ashour on prison literature. In it she analyzes some works of former prisoners, who have […]
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