A Place for Fiction in the Historical Archive

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Notes

¹ Dorrit Cohn, The Distinction of Fiction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), pp. 15–16.

² John Herbers, ‘Nixon says Sadat will come to U.S. later this year,’ New York Times, 14 June 1974, p. 1.

³ Henry Tanner, ‘No voice of dissent to mar Nixon Visit,’ New York Times, 13 June 1974, p. 10.

⁴ Aristotle's Poetics, translated and introduced by John Warrington (London: Alibris, 1963), p. 17.

⁵ Yusuf al-Qa'id, Yaduth fi Misr al'an (Cairo: n.p., 1976), p. 9.

⁷ Eric MacPhail, ‘The plot of history from antiquity to the Renaissance,’ Journal of the History of Ideas, 62(1) (2001), p. 2.

⁶ Eric MacPhail, ‘The plot of history from antiquity to the Renaissance,’ Journal of the History of Ideas, 62(1) (2001), p. 1.

¹⁰ Al-Qa'id, Yaduth fi Misr al'an, p. 23.

⁸ Hayden White, ‘The value of narrativity in the representation of reality,’ Critical Inquiry, 7(1) (1980), p. 9.

⁹ Hayden White, ‘The value of narrativity in the representation of reality,’ Critical Inquiry, 7(1) (1980), p. 8. The absence of a narrator is another narrative element in the historical narratives that White critiques.

¹¹ For a compelling reading of al-Lajna, as the story of the author's confrontation with the censoring authorities following the publication of this earlier (1966) novella Tilka al-ra'iha (translated as The Smell of It, 1971), see ‘Sonallah Ibrahim and the (hi)story of the book,’ in: Samia Mehrez, Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1994), pp. 39–57.

¹² Sun'Allah Ibrahim, The Committee, Mary St. Germain & Charlene Constable (Trans.) (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2001), p. 1.

¹⁴ Sun'Allah Ibrahim, The Committee, Mary St. Germain & Charlene Constable (Trans.) (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2001), pp. 6–7.

¹³ Sun'Allah Ibrahim, The Committee, Mary St. Germain & Charlene Constable (Trans.) (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2001), p. 5.

¹⁵ Sun'Allah Ibrahim, The Committee, Mary St. Germain & Charlene Constable (Trans.) (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2001), p. 31.

¹⁶ Sun'Allah Ibrahim, The Committee, Mary St. Germain & Charlene Constable (Trans.) (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2001), p. 46.

¹⁷ As Mehrez points out in Egyptian Writers, p. 49, the dangerous and subversive power of the narrator's emerging narrative is underscored in the novel by his collage of clipped photos showing ‘President Carter towering over Israeli Prime Minister Begin, who is dressed in schoolboy's shorts, with all the Arab leaders praying, in a prostrate position, before them, their behinds facing the onlooker.’

¹⁸ Paul Veyne, Comment On écrit l'histoire (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1974), p. 21, and quoted in Mehrez, Egyptian Writers, p. 4.

¹⁹ Ibrahim ‘Abdel-Majid, Bayt al-yasmin (Cairo: Dar al-fikr al-arabi, 1986), pp. 45–46.

²⁰ Ibrahim ‘Abdel-Majid, Bayt al-yasmin (Cairo: Dar al-fikr al-arabi, 2005, p. 49.

²¹ Ibrahim ‘Abdel-Majid, Bayt al-yasmin (Cairo: Dar al-fikr al-arabi, 2005, p. 23.

²² Ibrahim ‘Abdel-Majid, Bayt al-yasmin (Cairo: Dar al-fikr al-arabi, 2005, p. 50.

²³ ‘Thousands in Egypt riot over price rise,’ New York Times, 19 January 1977.

²⁴ See the quote from Sadat's speech reported in Al-Ahram, 4 February 1977, and quoted in David Hirst & Irene Beeson, Sadat (London: Faber & Faber, 1981), p. 248.

²⁵ ‘Thousands in Egypt riot over price rise,’ New York Times, 19 January 1977.

²⁶ ‘Abdel-Majid, Bayt al-yasmın, p. 1.

²⁷ Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-politics, Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), p. 233.

²⁸ Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Post-colonial Histories (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), p. 207.

²⁹ Al-Qa'id, Yahduth fi Misr al'an, p. 25.

³⁰ Ibrahim, The Committee, p. 10.

³¹ Mitchell, Rule of Experts, p. 209.

³² Mitchell, Rule of Experts, p. 210.

³³ Ibrahim, The Committee, p. 156.

³⁴ Mehrez, Egyptian Writers, p. 6.