In 2007, Fishere left the diplomatic service and started teaching political science at the American University in Cairo[3] He also wrote frequently for the press, both in Arabic and in English.

When Egyptians took to Tahrir Square en masse in 2011, Fishere joined the revolutionary wave and became one of its most recognisable faces as an analyst, political adviser to key presidential candidates and a widely-read columnist.

Fishere continued to denounce authoritarianism in his writings but withdrew from active public life since the election of General Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi as president in May 2014.

Mixing the past and present, reality with mythical and prophetical accounts, we are drawn into a world of disturbing and conflicting testimonies about the life, and earlier ‘deaths’ of Fakhredine.

Waiting for a rescue that doesn't seem to come, each of them gives free rein to a trail of introspection and reflection on their personal lives and pivotal decisions taken, as well as on the socio-political situation that led them to where they are.

His following novel The Egyptian Assassin (بوعمر المصري is a journey into the ‘heart of darkness’; it tells the story of a man who flees injustice in his country hoping to return one day and reverse it.

The novel, which has been reprinted eleven times to date, narrates the stories of eight Egyptians living on the eastern coast of the United States and critically examines their struggles, claims, and illusions.

[9] Reviewing it, Michelle Ann Schingler wrote: "Fishere’s novel is Mrs. Dalloway for an age when conversations about immigration, particularly from Arab nations, dominate—a gripping portrait of the tenuous spaces that marginalized populations are made to occupy, and a searing examination of the struggle to belong".

Through the eyes of a father who, in 2020, writes a long letter to his son explaining his decision to "betray" his country to Israel, we live the sorrows and hopes of Egyptian who took to the streets in January 2011 and watch their struggles during the following tumultuous nine years.

[citation needed] Furthermore, when subsequent political events in Egypt followed the projected narrative of the novel, The Exit became in the public imagination a "prophecy of the Egyptian revolution".

Critics have often described Fishere's literary work as "a critique of Arab society and its tragic flaws, from social decay to terrorism, and at the same time immanently universal as it addresses the fundamental questions of the human condition".

Salah Fadl, a leading literary critic in Egypt, declared in a recent review that "Ezzedine Choukri has confidently entered the canon of Arabic literature".