“The Pharaonic Past in a Post-2011 Egyptian Novel for Children: Ibrāhīm Farġalī’s Muġāmarah fī Madīnat al-Mawtà”.

Since 2011, Egypt has been witnessing a Pharaonist revival sparked by the January 25 Revolution. This article focuses on the representation of Pharaonic society in Muġāmarah fī Madīnat al-Mawtà, a 2014 children’s novel by Ibrāhīm Farġalī. The avant-garde writer of the 1990s generation used the time-slip device to send his two child protagonists from the digital era to the Pharaonic past in this story dealing with the cultural roots of Egyptianness. The analysis of Farġalī’s novel therefore includes explanations of the functions of time-slippage in historic fiction for children.