Political Dimensions in the Exit Door Novel written by Izal-Din Fikrey Fasher

Abstract

One Arabic novel that captured Egypt's political scene is the Exit Door by Izal-Din Fikrey Fasher. A political family-affiliated Egyptian translator plays a significant role in the story. His father serves as the Egyptian embassy's military attaché in China, and because of his strong connections with influential people, he is able to act as a private interpreter. From the perspective of the president's translator, the novel depicts the present political system for the President of the Republic. He then moves on to working with a series of administrations that are established after the president abdicates power.

A variety of authorities are revealed throughout the novel, the first two being the authority of chaos and dictatorship. A cast of characters that materialise out of nothing and vanish just as fast as consecutive transitory governments from different political parties and entities are used by the author. The novel also exposes the power of religion, which is embraced by certain political parties and bodies that push their extreme religious beliefs on the political and social order.

The writer constructed the protagonist of the novel as a member of a political family, which is consistent with the nature of the events and the international interventions that drove the events to reach dangerous political turning points. A number of actual political events were used for this, including the Gulf War and the American bases stationed in the region, Israel's occupation of Sinai Island, and the conflict between Iran, Israel, and Hezbollah. However, the core of the novel's narrative is represented in the external dimensions that the novel depicts as drivers of the events that occur within it.

The work gave readers a behind-the-scenes look at many political regimes and portrayed their personalities and changes in a way that captured the magnitude of failure, the struggle for dominance, international aspirations, and how these factors affected social, political, and economic realities.