Ibrahim Farghali is a critic and a fiction author, one of who called Nineties Generation in Egypt.
As a literary critic, Farghali has been the quickest to dismiss such middle-brow, best-selling "phenomena" as Alaa Al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building; and his principal argument against such books is that they pander to a growing but limited-and limiting-worldwide market, that "they are not novels at all, but illusions".