"Warda" reveals a little-known episode about the activities of leftists and communists in Yemen and Oman in the '60s and '70s. The title of one of his latest novels is "Amricanly" which superficially means " American" or "in an American way" but is really a parody of another word "Othmanly" related to the notorious Dark Ages when Turkey ruled Egypt. The word "Amricanly" in another way is almost a transliteration of the phrase "My affairs were mine" in Arabic. His novel, "The Committee" is often described by critics as kafkaesque. In it the protagonist seeks entry into a shadowy organization. He is routinely subject to their vetting process and Sonallah uses his character to make numerous political observations in the form of speeches to the committee. Several of Ibrahim's works also explore how repetition and fastidious attention to detail can be used to examine the themes of childhood innocence, boredom, and sexual frustration. In Stealth, the narrator recounts his childhood memories living with his father in a small, modest apartment. By describing each part of a mundane action, such as hanging up a coat or cooking some eggs, the narrator conveys his childhood curiosity and naivete about the adult world around him. In Ice, extensive repetition of intimate acts, with the same atomistic attention to detail, indicates the narrator's boredom and frustration with life as a foreign student in Soviet Russia. Bibliography تلك الرائحة [Tilka al-rāʾiḥah] (1966). The Smell of It, trans. Denys Johnson-Davies (1971); also That Smell & Notes from Prison, trans. Robyn Creswell (New Directions, 2013). This roman à clef novella, set during the rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser, is about a young Egyptian writer who had been a political prisoner; he is released and takes a look at the street life in his country. نجمة أغسطس [Najmat Aghustus] (1974). The Star of August. اللجنة [al-Lajnah] (1981). The Committee, trans. Charlene Constable and Mary St. Germain (Syracuse University Press, 2001). بيروت بيروت [Bayrut, Bayrut] (1984). Beirut, Beirut, trans. Chip Rossetti (Bloomsbury Qatar, 2014). ذات [Dhat] (1992). Zaat, trans. Anthony Calderbank (American University in Cairo Press, 2001). شرف [Sharaf] (1997). Honor. Cairo: From Edge to Edge (1999). A portrait of Cairo with photographer Jean-Pierre Ribière. وردة [Warda] (2000). Warda, trans. Hosam Aboul-Ela (Yale University Press, 2021). أمريكانلى [Amrikanli] (2003). Amricanly. يوميات الواحات [Yawmiyyat al-Wahat] (2005). Diaries of Oasis Prison. التلصص [al-Talassus] (2007). Stealth, trans. Hosam Aboul-Ela (Aflame Books, 2010;