Mocking Beirut phallocrats Tiṣṭifil Mērīl Strīb by Rašīd Al-Ḍa'īf

Tiṣṭifil Mērīl Strīb thematizes the sexuality of a Beirut man and woman. After deciding to find himself a “marriable” wife, Rachoud, the narrator-protagonist, becomes an object of ridicule due to venturing into emancipated women’s social space. He mistakenly believes he is advancing on familiar ground, framed by the religious establishment and patriarchal culture in the fiefdom of the phallocrats of yesteryear. The mockery in play is ultimately attributable to the implicit author.