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The Lonely Arab: Dispatches From Exile After October 7 by Muhamad Saad Khairalla
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Overview: What happens when an Arab writer refuses to repeat the narratives his society expects him to believe?
The Lonely Arab: Dispatches from Exile After October 7 is a collection of fifty essays by Egyptian writer and dissident Muhamad Saad Khairalla, written in the turbulent aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks and from the freedom, and isolation, of exile.
Khairalla left Egypt in 2018 after his opposition to both military authoritarianism and the Muslim Brotherhood made remaining in his homeland increasingly dangerous. From Sweden, he found the freedom to write about subjects that remain politically, religiously, and socially forbidden across much of the Middle East.
In these pages, he turns his attention to the disappearance of Egypts once-vibrant Jewish community, the persecution of Coptic Christians, the treatment of apostates, the roots of Arab hostility toward Israel, the rise of antisemitism, the failures of authoritarian Arab regimes, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, radical Islam in Europe, and the political machinery that manufactures enemies in order to preserve power.
But this is more than a book about October 7.
It is an insiders examination of the ideas, institutions, propaganda, and historical narratives that have shaped the modern Middle East. Khairalla writes as someone formed by that world, who ultimately chose to challenge many of its deepest assumptions, even when doing so meant exile and isolation.
Originally published across outlets including Israel Hayom, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, Middle East Forum, and Swedens Bulletin, these essays offer a perspective rarely heard in Western discussions of the Arab-Israeli conflict: that of an Arab dissident willing to confront his own society first.
The Lonely Arab is the record of what one writer saw after October 7, and what he believes the world still refuses to see.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational > Politics
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