Anna Della Subin

Anna Della Subin's Accidental Gods is a provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age...

On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

Accidental Gods

Albert Cossery

A biting social satire about a slacker Egyptian family consisting of a father, his three sons and their uncle describes the life of perpetual sleep and minimal exertion that tempts youngest family member, Serag, away from his fleeting ambitions to actually get a job. Original.

Laziness in the Fertile Valley

"This book-length essay on the cultural politics of sleep... takes as its starting point Tawfiq al-Hakim's 1933 play, "The People of the Cave." -- page 4 of cover.

Anna Della Subin

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