Village Novels in Egyptian Literature

This article concerns the literary image of Egyptian village people. Until 1952, when land reform was implemented, this image was an indispensable fact for authors of romance and realism in Egyptian literature. Novels and stories were based on farming people’s way of life and ambition to have farmland, that is, on a group that comprised 82% of the Egypt populace. Poverty, along with Egypt’s economic and political conditions, is the main theme of these novels. Thus the novels of Egypt have a unique place among literary novels