A unique anthology of fictional monologues following Egyptian taxi cab drivers as they traverse the hectic Cairene streets in their search of economic prospertity and human dignity. Part poetry, part oral history Al Khamissi provides an illustrative glimpse of the standard Egyptian man of the street trying to make ends meet.

"But instead of weaving together a well-defined narrative or adventure, Khamissi produced a series of vignettes of different drivers’ experiences, in an attempt to capture the broadest possible picture of the other side of Egyptian politics. (...) His unlikely approach, lucid prose, and rare insight into popular perceptions make Taxi perhaps the most interesting of the works that chronicle the social and political transformations Egypt has undergone during the past five decades. (...) Taxi's brilliance is that it captures the point at which cabs cease to be just a means of transportation and instead become a space for debate and exchange, at a time when all other public spaces, including the street itself, had become inaccessible under the brutal force of the police state." - Omayma Abdel-Latif, Foreign Policy