Egypt, between stability and imbalance Bahaa' Taher’s Ḫālatī Ṣafiya wa-l-dayr

This sociocritical analysis of the novel Tante Safeya et le monastère foregrounds an alternation between stability and precarity in the village in which the story unfolds, a never-ending oscillation between balance and imbalance that sheds light on the difficulties experienced in twentieth century Egypt.