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Utopia by Ahmed Khaled Towfik

Utopia

by Ahmed Khaled Towfik

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  • Nov 2010, 186 pages
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A dystopian Egypt in the year 2023.

The decadent rich live in secured compounds while the poor are trapped outside in a dog-eat-dog world. In this setting, a young man and a young girl venture out of their gated communities to see for themselves what their country is really like.

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Ahmed Khaled Tawfik was born in 1962 and is probably the Arab world's bestselling author of science fiction and horror. He has written more than 200 books.

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