Animal Farm

About this book

George Orwell's Animal Farm begins with animals overthrowing their human owner in the hope of creating a just society. Their revolution gradually hardens into dictatorship as the pigs seize authority, rewrite principles, and use language to control memory. In this Arabic translation by Jihad Salah, the fable's sharp irony exposes how liberating promises can be hollowed out by privilege and fear. Accessible as a story and unsettling as a political warning, the novel remains a compact study of propaganda, obedience, and the ease with which equality can be betrayed by those who claim to defend it.