Magical Realism in the Novel "Fi Mamar el-Feeran" by Ahmad Khaled Tawfiq

Magical realism means the combination of reality, magic and imagination, that is, reality and the unreal. This style is a new style in Arabic novelism, in addition to exploring the narrative form and transcending the boundaries of the narrative tradition, opening the way for him to explain some of the issues through this new form of narrative. This literary tendency has developed in Arabic novels and among its writers; one of them is Ahmad Khaled Tawfiq (1962- 2018). He is one of the pioneers of the literature of fear in contemporary Arabic literature. He has written valuable works and novels in this field; one of his most famous novels is "Fi Mamar el-Feeran" and is an advanced and advanced type of "The Story of the Exalted One", No. 68 of his supernatural series. In this novel, he has addressed the social issues of his society, Egypt, with a place of fear and magic, imagination, fear and darkness and myth. The present study is an analytical-descriptive study of the events of this novel from the perspective of magic realism and tries to understand the social and political aspects hidden in it. One of the most important findings of the research is that Khaled Tawfiq draws a picture of contemporary Egyptian society and how they deal with issues such as poverty, ignorance, darkness, and fear of enemies, and exposes problems of their nation such as despair, deprivation, and cruelty such as enemies. Israel picks up. In this way he has used extensive imagination and various techniques such as combining real elements with the imagination and applying Greek myths such as Odysseus, Prometheus, etc., and accurately describing superstitious persons and personalities.