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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