The Queue

Set against the backdrop of a failed political uprising, The Queue is a chilling debut that evokes Orwellian dystopia, Kafkaesque surrealism, and a very real vision of life after the Arab Spring.

In an unnamed but alarmingly familiar Egyptian city, an authoritarian organization known as the Gate has just quashed a popular uprising and is now requiring its citizens to obtain permits for even the most basic activities–eating, drinking, even window-shopping. But the Gate never opens, and the queue before it grows and grows.