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Nabil Boutros, Liberty (2013)

April 28, 2022 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“The words that Virgil speaks to Cato (De Monarchia II, V, 15) mark both the origin and the end of the quest undertaken by Dante, at the end of the quest undertaken by Dante, at the end of which he poses a clear antithesis between ‘servitude’ and ‘liberty’: ‘Thou from a slave hast brought me unto freedom’ (Paradiso, Canto XXXI, 85).

[. . .] In this process of discernment through which freedom is achieved, man is supported by will, i.e. ‘the power that wills’ (Purgatorio, Canto XXI, 105), and aided by reason, i.e. ‘the power that counsels’ (Purgatorio, Canto XVIII, 62).”

Retrieved from The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists by Simon Njami.

Learn more about the Cairo-born artist Nabil Boutros on the artist’s website.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2013, Africa, Art Books, Cairo, Cato, Desire, Egypt, Freedom, Liberty, Paradiso, Prose, Purgatorio, Virgil

Mohammad Rabie, Otared (2016)

August 27, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“2025: fourteen years after the failed revolution, Egypt is invaded once more. As traumatized Egyptians eke out a feral existence in Cairo’s dusty downtown, former cop Ahmed Otared joins a group of fellow officers seeking Egypt’s liberation through the barrel of a gun. As Cairo becomes a foul cauldron of drugs, sex, and senseless violence, Otared finally understands his country’s fate. In this unflinching and grisly novel, Mohammad Rabie envisages a grim future for Egypt, where death is the only certainty.”   —Amazon.   (this dystopian, apocalyptic science fiction novel is organized in line with Dante’s circles of Hell)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2016, Apocalyptic Fiction, Arab Spring, Dystopian Fiction, Egypt, Fiction, Literature, Novels, Science Fiction

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