This study falls into the rubric of Power and Intellectuals in the Arab World. It draws up on the framework of Gramsci's critical theory, as well as, Edward Said's book Representations of the Intellectuals. Gramsci believed that "Organic intellectuals are actively involved in society"(Said 4). Benda defines intellectuals as a "tiny band of super-gifted and morally endowed philosopher-kings who constitute the conscious of mankind" (Said 4). On the light of these two definitions, this study attempts to trace the relationship between Traditional Authority and Organic Intellectuals in the Arab World through the works of Abdul Rahman Munif. It also shows that traditional intellectuals ruled the organic intellectuals by force. Therefore, the clash between the intellectuals and the authority became an inevitable one. Abdul Rahman Munif is an organic intellectual who chose to stand up with weaker and the less well-represented. The novels to be analyzed in this study are Cities of Salt and East of the Mediterranean. These novels exclusively deal with the themes of Power and Intellectuals. They have put power, ideology, culture, hegemony, and intellectuals as their settings between fictionality and actuality by going into the very details of the clash between the states and the intellectuals. Arab intellectuals have completely lost their freedom because of the Arab dictatorial regimes. The intellectuals, who chose to explore the darker side and to unveil the veil of the image so carefully constructed by the dictatorial regimes-controlled media, have ended up in stuffy dark rooms. Such places are the most frequently resorted where intellectuals are habitually taken into prison as a kind of exile in order to be silenced. The same thing happens to Rajab Ismail, the hero of East of the Mediterranean. Rajab Ismail is imprisoned for many years under deplorable situations of mental and physical torture. He loses his eyesight because of the brutal torture.