Their writings carried their hopes for change; much of it was extremely out voiced and tended to break social and cultural taboos. Aladdin’s 2006 masterpiece, The Gospel According to Adam,” strongly reflects this trend as it tells of a man’s sexual fantasies about an attractive young woman he sees on Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. In his 2008 collection, The Secret Life of Citizen M,” he also broke away from the classic structure of the novel, creating more of a psychological experience for readers by starting with conflict and ending by theorising on a number of propositions.