![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An attack much like it forms the violent anchor of Ibrahim Essa’s 2012 novel The Televangelist, published in Jonathan Wright’s brisk English translation in 2016. But talk about this bombing, alternately blamed on Islamists and on Egypt’s interior minister, comes amid noisy and conflicting public narratives about the country’s religious and state terror. No one has been held accountable for the Alexandria attack, and news of the bombing was soon overshadowed by country-wide protests that erupted later that month. IN THE EARLY HOURS of January 1, 2011, a bomb was set off among New Year’s Eve worshippers at a Coptic church in Egypt’s second city. “ The Boy Jihadi” by Youssef Rakha ( Guernica, 2015) The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette (Melville House, 2016) The Televangelist by Ibrahim Essa, translated by Jonathan Wright (American University in Cairo Press, 2016) ![]()
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