However, in recent years a new generation of young Arab authors has begun an innovative literary movement known as al-Riwaya al-Gadida (The New Novel), linked to the phenomenon of bloggers.
A tradition of writings in dialect has always existed in the Arab world, but colloquial Arabic has never achieved real literary approbation. The author recounts the stories of different taxi drivers he encounters and offers some insight into contemporary Cairo and Egypt. The book is dedicated "to the life that lives in the words of poor people." Taxi is about urban sociology in the Egyptian capital through the voices of taxi drivers.
Taxi is a collection of 58 short stories by Khaled Al Khamissi, first published in December 2006.
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