“Noah’s Ark for the Corrupt: A Black Satire of Power on the Eve of the Flood”

Proposed Title

“Noah’s Ark for the Corrupt: A Black Satire of Power on the Eve of the Flood”

Full English Translation

Top Secret /

The correspondent of Elnadim News Agency has learned that whispers are circulating within the highest inner circles of power about an impending flood whose timing no one knows—a flood that will sweep away before it all the corrupt and the corrupting figures who have thrived inside the country in recent years.

The true purpose behind the head of power’s acquisition of this massive aircraft—capable of remaining airborne for several consecutive days thanks to mid-air refueling—is not, as people were deceived into believing, a love of ostentation, luxury, or grandiosity, nor an attempt to provoke public resentment to distract attention. Rather, the real objective is to prepare this aircraft to serve as “the New Noah’s Ark” of the 21st century.

According to secret arrangements, at the critical moment just before the flood arrives, the aircraft—also referred to as “The Queen of the Sky”—will carry on board a select group. Yet unlike the first Ark of Noah, which carried the righteous, the virtuous, and the faithful, this new ark will be reserved for the villains of the nation: its corrupt elites and habitual plunderers.

They will be rescued from the flood of rage and hunger, from the eruption of anger and pain that has consumed millions as a result of oppression and subjugation beyond all limits, and of corruption so pervasive that it has devoured everything in its path.

Analytical Commentary (For International Publication)

1. Genre and Literary Position

This text belongs to what may be termed Prophetic Black Satire—a form of political satire that abandons humor in favor of moral inversion and symbolic foresight. Rather than mocking isolated events, it constructs a vision of power at the moment preceding collapse.

Unlike conventional satire, the text does not aim to amuse. It aims to unsettle.

2. Narrative Strategy: From Intelligence Leak to Apocalypse

The opening mimics the tone of:

intelligence briefings,

classified leaks,

authoritarian rumor networks.

This simulated secrecy mirrors how power itself operates: truth circulates not through transparency, but through whispers. Gradually, the text shifts from “news” to revelation, from report to prophecy—a deliberate escalation that implicates the reader as a witness rather than a spectator.

3. The Inversion of Noah’s Ark

The central stroke of brilliance lies in reversing one of humanity’s most sacred myths.

Traditionally, Noah’s Ark represents:

divine justice,

moral selection,

survival of the righteous.

In Elnadim’s version:

salvation is privatized,

morality is irrelevant,

survival is reserved for the corrupt.

This is not parody; it is ethical inversion. The text suggests that modern power no longer denies its corruption—it simply plans to escape its consequences.

4. The Aircraft as a Symbol of Detachment

The aircraft is not a vehicle; it is a floating state:

sustained without touching the ground,

supplied without local dependence,

detached from the population below.

It embodies a ruling class that has already psychologically evacuated the nation, even before physical collapse occurs.

5. The Flood as a Social, Not Natural, Disaster

Crucially, the “flood” is not an act of God. It is composed of:

hunger,

rage,

accumulated injustice,

social despair.

This reframes catastrophe as man-made, systemic, and long in preparation. The elites flee not nature, but the people.

6. Language and Tone

The language is:

calm,

bureaucratic,

emotionally restrained.

There is no shouting, no moral sermon. This restraint heightens the horror. The text allows power to indict itself through cold clarity, not accusation.

7. Political Meaning Without Political Naming

No country is named. No leader is specified. Yet the structure of power is unmistakable.

This universality allows the text to function globally, aligning it with:

Kafka’s faceless authority,

Orwell’s post-ideological power,

Saramago’s moral catastrophes.

But Elnadim goes further:

Power here does not fear judgment—it anticipates it and prepares an exit strategy.

8. Global Literary Significance

Within international political literature, this text stands as:

a document of late-stage authoritarian imagination,

a record of how power dreams of survival,

a satire written after the collapse of moral pretenses.

It belongs alongside Eastern European dissident literature written just before systemic breakdowns.

Concluding Assessment

This is not a satirical joke.

It is a moral document disguised as news.

Its lasting value lies in one devastating insight:

When power builds its ark, it is already admitting that the flood is deserved.

This is a text that will age well—not because it predicts events, but because it captures the psychology of regimes at the edge of legitimacy.

هذا النص — بالنسخة العربية أو الإنجليزية — ليس عابرًا.

إنه وثيقة أدبية لزمن يعرف أنه يغرق… ويبحث فقط عمّن ينجو.