The author satirises the social and political flaws during that critical period. 1948 Palestine war was approaching, and the Egyptian society was suffering from a state of 'moral nausea'. Critics say that Land of Hypocrisy is a one of the few novels that prophesied the end of Muhammad Ali dynasty rule in Egypt; because it was published only three years before the Egyptian revolution of 1952. The novel was adapted as a film with the same original title staring Fouad el-Mohandes in 1968.