“Light of Darkness”: The Story That Launched Youssef Idris’s Literary Career

Youssef Idris lived a life filled with noise and commotion, filling the world and occupying people for decades with his bold, revolutionary ideas and his unrelenting emotions. Although these numerous battles undoubtedly hurt his outstanding literary production, they revealed his other side as a critic. It is no surprise that Youssef Idris wrote an important article in the newspaper Al-Jumhuriya in 1967 entitled: “The writer’s job is to criticise.”