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Abdul Rahman Munif (1933- 2004), a contemporary and a committed Saudi Arabian writer protests against the conditions of tyranny and injustice in in Saudi Arabia and other Arabic countries by depicting political and social realities in his novels. East of the Mediterranean (1975) is one of his novels in which a clear picture of the information system and the plight of political prisoners in their countries are presented. This article uses a descriptive - analytic method, investigating the most important components of Prison Literature such as the prison environment (and nights in prison cells), the character of prison guards and prison guards, life in prison (torture, Feed imprisonment, loneliness and separation, sorrow, despair, thinking, fantasy and fear, willing to die, complaint, weakness and disease, threatened and confessed, pride, letter of excuse and freedom) in East of the Mediterranean. The findings reveal that according to the experience of prisoners by the author, the discursive prison novel provides the best description of the situations and in particular, internal states and mental conditions of the prisoners.
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