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Committed to Disillusion: Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s Volume 3; Guirguis quirky illustrations and bite-sized textDavid DiMeoCan a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al adab al multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mid twentieth century. By the 1960s, however, leading Egyptian writers had retreated into disillusionment, producing agonized works that challenged the key assumptions of socially engaged writing. Rather than a rejection of the idea, however, these