Isis and Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm A plea against autocracy

Reinterpreting the struggle of the couple Isis and Osiris and their son Horus against the tyranny of Set, Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm makes the goddess a key figure in his work, a polysemantic character whose attributes as a political opponent to autocracy and dictatorship this contribution aims to highlight through a sociosemiotic study of Isis (1955), the symbolic-cum-political play in three acts, as well as, secondarily, Lettres à son fantôme (1944), a work of short fiction.