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Discourse analysis is a leading trend in modern linguistics. It refers to the process of studying and understanding discourse and analyzing its content and goals.

Discourse analysis does not only deal with the lexical and grammatical elements that make up a sentence. Rather, extratextual factors, i.e. the

  cultural, social and political context in which the text is produced, are also examined. This research aims to analyze the discourse of Khalil Hasan Khalil's novels based on Van Leeuwen and Van Dijk and Habermas theories. Because Khalil Hasan Khalil's novels depict the situation of the people who were oppressed and marginalized under the dominance of authorities, it is considered a suitable platform for discourse analysis. The results of this research show that Khalil Hasan Khalil has tried to use rhetorical and linguistic strategies such as describing the social activist, creating distance, irony, exaggeration, numbers game, metaphor and other strategies, to represent the members of internal group positively and the members of the external group negatively. This research also shows that the discourse producer focused on the representation of social actors in a way of expression that includes explicit components. In order to delegitimize the actions of autocrats and legitimize the actions of the Egyptian people and the marginalized, he has used strategies such as mythopoesis, evaluation, and legitimation and authorization that Van Leeuwen proposed But the public space that Habermas talks about has been under government supervision in most parts of the discourse. Therefore, people in this system are not equal before the law and are not able to make decisions about the important issues of the country.