The country's literary and intellectual luminaries were marginalized in the same way. Naguib Mahfouz's23 novels were no longer serialized in Al-Ahram. Tawfik Al-Hakeem's last two novels were published in Paris and Beirut, but not in Cairo. Ihsan Abdel Kodous, Egypt's foremost romance novelist, was branded a 'pornographer', and some of his publishers took it upon themselves to change the endings of some of his novels {without his knowledge} to suit the rising social conservatism.
( Tarek Osman )
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