Aida: The Captive of War, The Princess of Love by Khaled Badawi (Author)
Aida: The Captive of War, The Princess of Love by Khaled Badawi is a mesmerizing journey into the heart of ancient Egypt during the reign of Ramses III. This gripping historical novel intertwines the lives of Aida, a captive princess, and Radames, a valiant warrior, as they navigate the political intrigue, military upheaval, and societal tensions of the time. Set against the backdrop of Egypt’s first known workers' strike at Deir el-Medina, Badawi masterfully explores themes of love, sacrifice, and loyalty. Drawing from authentic historical records, including the Turin Judicial Papyrus and the Book of the Dead, the novel blends historical accuracy with rich fictional storytelling, offering readers a vivid tapestry of life in the pharaonic era. Through the poignant love story of Aida and Radames, the novel delves deep into the complexities of personal relationships, the weight of societal expectations, and the power struggles that define human existence. Aida immerses readers in a timeless tale of devotion, conflict, and the enduring human spirit, leaving a lasting impression of love's resilience amidst the forces of history.
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Alexandria 2050 by Subhi Fahmawi (Author)
Alexandria 2050 is a visionary novel that seamlessly intertwines Alexandria’s rich historical legacy with a futuristic world shaped by technological advancements. Set in the year 2050, the story paints a vivid contrast between the city's proud cultural heritage and a future dominated by digital surveillance and private intelligence networks. The novel delves deep into the complex tensions between tradition and modernity, exploring how economic, environmental, and societal changes challenge human values in an increasingly digitized world. Through its compelling characters, Alexandria 2050 offers a profound reflection on the resilience of humanity and the timeless spirit of Alexandria, inviting readers to contemplate the future while cherishing the lessons of the past.
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Attun’s Hymn by Medhat shanan
The novel takes place in the city of Chicago when the Egyptian Egyptologist Dr. Hassan Abdul-Rahman is chosen to be among the American mission entrusted with the discovery of the Pharaonic monuments in Qurna Mountain in Upper Egypt, that dream for which he lived to decipher the mystery of the message he inherited from his grandfather, the chief Abdul-Fattah Harb, one of Howard Carter’s assistants, who discovered the Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb. That message has included a call from the Pharaoh Akhnattun to his daughter, Tutankhamun’s wife, to return to the homeland and support the father against the oppression of Amun’s priests. Dr. Hassan returns to his hometown of Qurna, after an absence of decades, to search for evidence that confirms his research on the origin of Satanism. The conflict develops, and the times overlap between the abyssal past and the living present, in many places among Cairo, Luxor, and Chicago. The nationalities converge and interact with each other by interests and whims, and feelings range between love and lies, honesty and betrayal, strength and weakness, reality and imagination, until Dr. Hassan reaches his goal, and achieve an archaeological and historical discovery that upends the world, and reveals the secret of oblivion through Attun’s Hymn. He revealed its hidden part, challenging the problems of ignorance, superstition, and the dominance of tribalism and money, with the help of Qurna’s conscious youth. However, the forces of evil were on the lookout for him, when they prepared in Chicago to get rid of him in his homeland's heart.
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Delusion by Medhat Shanan
Delusion novel is a literary text characterized by the artistic awareness of the vast word of the novel. The writer was skilled at holding over the events' threads with mastery, grace and suspense. He also drew the characters with honesty and proficiency. They, therefore, were compatible with people in real life .The language he used reflected his ability to be flexible when it comes to narration that was fluent, thus representing a literary masterpiece and proving a capability of describing and drawing the details of setting as well as those of human nature and contradictions of life and environment. Also, dialogues were written in vernacular to be more authentic and realistic. Although the novel talks about the adventure of a young lawyer to solve a crime of which his colleague was accused, its events carried intertwined threads that wove the ordeal of a home country because of corrupt people in it, which led to deterioration and decline in all their forms. It is also pregnant with symbols which made characters and events into an objective equation with life. Even Nahla ,the heroine of the story that was about to lose her way in the midst of storms of conspiracies forever, is but mother country that is on the edge of an abyss ,still surrounded by perils. This literary work, which is the writer’s first published book, is worth reading and studying for the suspense, pleasure and beauty it is filled with.
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Different Flavors-short stories by Lamia Nouira Boukil
This book weaves texts that form in her imagination, and she reconciles with her wasted time in the kitchen and delves into the number of floors, foods, and tastes. Any resemblance to actual people (living or dead), places, or events in our time is purely coincidental. Everything goes towards destruction, and nothing remains but a trace. And the effect on authorship is writing, the "eternal herb" that may not change the world but carries the world's voice and its conscience. The writer, Lamia Nouira Boukil, has three collections of stories, most characterized by realism. She said: "The author is first and foremost the son of his era, his society, and his local and universal affiliation." In 2018, the author published the first collection of forty-five texts, entitled "Travel in the Fist of the Hand." And a second, published in 2020, includes twelve stories and is titled "The Village of Botero. Al-Qassasa won two Arab awards for her short story, and she has writings for children under review and a novel for young people underwriting. She also continues to write short stories and publish them in paper newspapers and electronic magazines. The writer picked up her stories with their events and personalities and enabled them from the road and places of public life, and those around her, whether women, men, or children, simple and distressed, from those who resemble her and share with her anxiety and disappointment, worry and dream, hope and longing, who struggle with the requirements of life, and the brunt of social, economic and political changes. And with all that hope for a better tomorrow and longing for a more beautiful world with justice and room for happiness and dreams. The author's stories are also full of interest in the animal, which has been man's partner and companion since the beginning of creation. There is also a celebration of places and times just like people and between the folds of all that emerge ideas that are usually characterized by their human, philosophical, and existential dimension, and explicit references to the arts and their constant involvement in human issues along with The beauty and profound effect it has achieved on the souls of those who taste it. The stories of the writer, Lamia Nouira Bukil, are not political. Still, they are not isolated from politics, whose variables cast a shadow over all aspects of life and the conditions of peoples, nor are they isolated from the world in which technology becomes savage, so life became savage, and its alienation increased in it, and this is what prompted the author - as she says - To alleviate the burden of this reality by giving its stories rooted in its soil, a dose of imagination and suspense, wit, exoticism, and unrealism, and to inspire a growing and extended spirit in its local roots to touch the wider world. The stories may appear in a first reading of a local matter. Still, a deep and insightful reading soon reveals that they are full of the spirit of universality and belonging to man wherever he is, bearing his voice, concern, and dream relentlessly. For that, "love in him and believe in him, the author dedicates her writings to him."
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Flee the Cocoon by Emad Al-Doumani (Author)
Flee the Cocoon is an intense, thought-provoking novel that plunges readers into a world where reality and imagination blur. It explores the mysterious lives of its characters, who are caught in a web of psychological intrigue and parallel dimensions. As they confront hidden fears, unresolved trauma, and enigmatic forces, the narrative masterfully intertwines suspense with a profound psychological exploration. With its symbolic layers and haunting suspense, the novel keeps readers captivated, urging them to unravel the deeper truths lurking beneath the surface. Filled with unexpected twists, Flee the Cocoon offers a unique blend of mystery, existential reflection, and emotional intensity, leaving readers questioning the boundaries of reality.
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Here the temptress lies down by Mohammed Ikbal Harb
A novel about real life, it deals with and explores the causes and the motives of the honor crime, which is still common in many Eastern countries. Although this crime is concealed by religion, its main motives are social and primarily tribal. The novel is characterized by the fact that the suffering symptoms of the victim were under the supervision of psychiatrists, and the treatment and the way the medical body dealt with the case were also under the supervision of psychiatrists. The novel's events and, its few characters are intertwined knots that evoke the past, sometimes to build and others to destroy. We also find a conflict between an enlightened thought and another clinging to the past without taking into account the age, which is usually a mask that we do not know what is hidden around it. The novel tells of a woman suffering who was subjected to attempted rape, forcing her to flee to the West to escape murder. The successive events in the West were not more merciful because of certain circumstances that returned violently to the victim the pain of the experience. The violent psychological struggle of the protagonists sinks far into the structure of a society that embraces the idea of honor killing. The experience of the novel gives the victims real hope for a less cruel life and opens doors to launch into a new future.
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The Dikkah Board of Directors by Dr. Ahmed Salah Kamel
Under the mulberry tree on the edge of our Badanjani village, the mayor, Shakhbout Al-Mahi, established a Dikka to sit on in the afternoon. But as his engagements increased, he no longer had the time to sit on it, which led to all the villagers vying for the honor and prestige of sitting on it. This competition sparked major disputes between families and clans, nearly igniting the village. Shakhbout considered burning down the Dikka to rid himself of the headache. Still, the wise elders cautioned him against this, warning that it would open the door for every family to put up their own Dikka instead of the one that was burned, leading to an even bigger conflict. So Shakhbout backed down from his idea and declared the Dikka as public property, where everyone would be equal in rights and duties. But he realized the need for a wise administration to manage it somewhat. Shakhbout hastily wanted to appoint a board to manage the Dikka, but the wise men advised against this, fearing public rejection of his choices due to potential accusations of favoritism. The rational minds around Shakhbout suggested holding free elections to choose a management board for the Dikka, with judicial oversight. The elected board members took pride in their positions, even getting personal cards printed, and they appointed guards to watch over the Dikka. Due to the high demand for seats on the Dikka, the board decided to hire staff to receive and register requests while also accommodating Shakhbout's desire to sit on the Dikka and the requests of visiting delegations. Oppositional movements emerged to monitor the board's actions, and online pages warned of the dangers of extending the current board's term, as this posed a grave threat to the Dikka and the entire Badanjani village. Egyptian and foreign media outlets broadcast distressing news about the deterioration of the Dikka, its flooding from the canal waters, hinting at its impending demise. The mayor's close associates reported his astonishment, emaciation, and remorse that even led him to slap his face. It was said that one of the Dikka's guards reached retirement age, but the administrative authorities refused to give him a pension, as his work was considered semi-official. Surprisingly, this experiment spread and was embraced by other villages and hamlets as a model to emulate. Ultimately, the Dikka and its management board led the village into momentous events, the details of which are elaborated within the novel.
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The Scrolls of Kislev by Nassar Al-Hasan
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The Truth by M.Iqbal Harb
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سلطانات الرمل للكاتبة لينا هويان الحسن
هناك ... على تخوم الصحراء قصر ابن وردان، يقرأ كلمات السراب حوله ويتحداني ... كيف أجعل البادية التي هي أخت الصحراء مقروءة مطبوعة في سطور منتظمة ، وأوراق ناعمة. أجول مثل بدوي يلوب في فراغ الكثبان يؤنسه حفيف ذاكرة ووقع حوافر المغيرات. بفضل الغوايات تركض الخيول هناك، وتكون المغيرات صبحا وظهرا وعصرا ، مغيرات في كل وقت ، عبر طيات الزمن على سرير الصحراء المبسوط على ناصية تاريخ عتيق ... ترسم حدوده آفاق تصقل عريها المستقيم ، الصافي المستفيض، ودائما لها معنى الصمت. أغافل النسيان في رواحه ومجينه وأندس بين بضع خرافات، مع الزمن ، ستكفي لأن تكسو جسدها بحراشف الأسطورة .
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