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Index on Censorship

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Fiction's freedom

Karim Alrawi

To cite this article: Karim Alrawi (1996) Fiction's freedom, Index on Censorship, 25:2, 172-175

To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064229608536057

Published online: 23 Oct 2007.

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KARIM ALRAWI

Fiction's freedom

The government and its Islamic opponents join forces to cripple

Egyptian publishing

CIVIL society in Egypt is a smokescreen. The rule of a small militaryelite is the reality. Translating such a terse statement into practical

examples is not difficult. For a start there is the constitution that affords

the country's citizens an exemplary degree of freedom and protection, but

this constitution was suspended shortly after President Mubarak took over

unelected from his assassinated predecessor President Sadat. Another

example is that government officials state categorically that there is no

censorship of published material in Egypt and will refer the inquirer to a

number of laws that they say protect the individual's right to free

expression. The truth is somewhat different: the state security forces, or

more accurately, the secr