Loss of freedom women and man struggle to find a place in post revolutionary Egypt in Ibrahim the smell of it

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This paper aims to have a glance at the ways wherein Ibrahim expresses the Cairo life with a special focus on the socio-political context of the nation in the 1960s.

Ibrahim's The Smell of It came to light at a particular moment when transformations in all fields of life were in progress: culturally, politically, and socially.

It is devoted to shed light on the Egyptian‘s life after Nasser's 1952 revolution1.

Ibrahim attempts to depict the ordinary man‘s struggle to find a place in a corrupted Egypt.

Moreover, this paper is an attempt to present the role of women in Ibrahim's The Smell of It which portrays a journey of sexual encounters and experiences as a means to show the author/protagonist‘s disconnect from his society.

Women's role in the text symbolizes the social perception and representation of women during the 1960s.

One of the goals of this paper is to show that Arab women are doubly suppressed.

In order to create some awareness of the ugliness of the society where we live, Ibrahim utilizes notions of marriage, love, and sex so as to talk about women's rights in Egypt and the Arab world in the 1960s.

I give a special focus on the stories of the three women whom the protagonist encounters in the text so as to clarify the suppression of the Arab women.

The women Ibrahim writes about are the tip of the iceberg of the many stories that are known to everyone but remain untold.