The Politics of Melodrama - The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser

Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919–1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. Unearthing Nasser's repeated interventions to shape the work of Abdel Kouddous, this book demonstrates how the media and popular fiction negotiate between the intellectual and the state.