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Expected 17 Nov 26In what might be his last night on Earth, the Egyptian president’s translator Ali pens a letter to his estranged son, telling him of everything that has led him, and his country, to breaking point.
Ali is traveling aboard a cargo ship on a dangerous mission to accompany twenty-four nuclear warheads from North Korea to Egypt, where they will be launched at the Israeli occupation of Sinai. But he has blown the whistle on the operation and now must face the consequences: will he be celebrated as a hero or condemned as a traitor?
Fishere’s powerful storytelling offers an alternative history to events post-revolution in Egypt, hinging on the rupture of the Arab Spring. Exit creates a compelling, and terrifying, vision of the Middle East, one that both teaches us about the present and warns of coming catastrophe.
Ali is traveling aboard a cargo ship on a dangerous mission to accompany twenty-four nuclear warheads from North Korea to Egypt, where they will be launched at the Israeli occupation of Sinai. But he has blown the whistle on the operation and now must face the consequences: will he be celebrated as a hero or condemned as a traitor?
Fishere’s powerful storytelling offers an alternative history to events post-revolution in Egypt, hinging on the rupture of the Arab Spring. Exit creates a compelling, and terrifying, vision of the Middle East, one that both teaches us about the present and warns of coming catastrophe.
368 pages, Paperback
Expected publication November 17, 2026
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Ezzedine C. Fishere
14 books107 followersEzzedine C. Fishere is an Egyptian-American novelist whose work explores the intersections of politics, identity, and everyday life in the modern Middle East.
He is the author of nine novels, three nominated for the Arabic Booker (the International Prize for Arabic Fiction), with two adapted into acclaimed television dramas. A former diplomat in Cairo, Jerusalem, and Khartoum, he was a prominent voice of the Tahrir Uprising before going into voluntary exile in the United States in 2016. He now teaches Middle Eastern politics at Dartmouth College.
He is the author of nine novels, three nominated for the Arabic Booker (the International Prize for Arabic Fiction), with two adapted into acclaimed television dramas. A former diplomat in Cairo, Jerusalem, and Khartoum, he was a prominent voice of the Tahrir Uprising before going into voluntary exile in the United States in 2016. He now teaches Middle Eastern politics at Dartmouth College.
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