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War in the Land of Egypt
Yusuf al-Qaid
1978
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A watchman's son dies at war in place of a rich man's son who bought a substitute.
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A leading voice of 1970s Egyptian realism. War in the Land of Egypt is a sharp parable of social injustice, once banned and later translated into many languages.
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