Dar Al Shorouk

New Life Author's name: Orhan Pamuk "I read a book one day and my whole life changed." With these words, Orhan Pamuk begins his novel "The New Life." With it, the hero embarks on a journey to discover the impact this book had on...

The thugs Author's name: Khairy Shalaby In this beautiful novel, first published in 1978, the great writer Khairy Shalaby reveals a page from the secrets of the Delta countryside in the early 1950s. He weaves a rich world about Talaat, who searches for his...

soft hands Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim The author shows that work is the basis of life and that high origins and inherited palaces are only the creation of hands like tools. Not every producer is rich, nor every rich person is a producer. What...

The flower of life Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim A collection of Tawfiq al-Hakim's personal letters about the period he spent in Paris, which are being republished as part of Dar al-Shorouk's project to publish the complete works of the father of Arab theatre.

From the ivory tower Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim “The title ‘The Ivory Tower’ stuck with me, and some understood it as a sign of apathy toward society and its events. It wasn’t simply understood as a sign of distancing oneself from the sterile noise...

Bedtime stories Author's name: Ahmed Al-Deeb It reminded me of Zakaria Tamer's texts. I know that a genuine writer might be upset by being likened to another writer, but perhaps it's my excuse that I really like Zakaria Tamer's stories; hence, I intended to...

Lifetime prison Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim The Prison of Life is one of the most beautiful and enjoyable autobiographies in Arabic literature, and is published by Dar Al Shorouk as part of a project to republish the complete works of the father of Arabic...

Justice and Art Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim When the deputy public prosecutor wrote “The Diary of a Country Prosecutor,” he didn’t mean a specific deputy or village, but rather depicted human models and social conditions that could apply to every patch of rural Egypt....

Pearl tanks Author's name: Khairy Shalaby Can you describe the melody of music and its impact on the soul and spirit in words? This is what the novelist Khairy Shalaby did in his novel “Pearl Tanks” and what its lines convey to us, with...

Muhammad, the Messenger of Freedom Author's name: Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi In the introduction to the first edition of the book, Professor Abdul Rahman said: (I do not think that a new book I am writing can add a new truth to what has been...

Lost lives Author's name: Youssef Ziedan What is poetry? This is a persistent question and a fundamental idea that preoccupies the collection "It's Too Late" by the poet Mohamed Abu Zeid. It begins with form and content, moves on to poetry's relationship with a...

Adam was made of clay Author's name: Muhammad Al-Mansi Qandil This book contains a short novel and four stories that all reveal the art of this book, full of nostalgia and longing, and the lyrical style that accompanied its stories from its beginning until...

Nectar of life Author's name: Jalal Amin This book can be considered the second part of "What Life Has Taught Me?" It is a continuation of it, but not in the sense that it picks up where the first ends, but rather in the...

Pages from Naguib Mahfouz's memoirs Author's name: Raja Al-Naqash Although the great writer Naguib Mahfouz adamantly refused to write his autobiography, the renowned critic Rajaa al-Naqqash succeeded in convincing him to recount it to him instead. Over the course of 18 months, starting in...

Short stories by Abdul Hakim Qasim Author's name: Abdul Hakim Qasim In this collected edition, Dar Al Shorouk republishes the short stories of the late writer Abdul Hakim Qasim for the first time between the covers of a single book, including his short stories...

People of the Cave Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim "The People of the Cave" was the first "artistic" play inspired by religious stories in dramatic drama. In it, Tawfiq al-Hakim addressed the issue of time and its meaning in relation to humans and civilizations, posing...

Capacity of holding rooms Author's name: Abdul Hakim Qasim The novel (The Fate of Grim Rooms) is an attempt to search for a more beautiful world, through the experience of the narrator Abdel Aziz in Egyptian prisons, in the sixties, across several houses the...

Sad owner Author's name: Ibrahim Aslan And when you pull it, it dangles at the end of the string from its tiny mouth, still trembling, which you feel in the inch handle and hear as a light, wet hum. Then its delicate, slender silver...

Two rooms and a hall Author's name: Ibrahim Aslan In "Two Rooms and a Hall," Ibrahim Aslan takes us, with his unique style, into a world of everyday situations that seem extremely ordinary and could happen in any home and family. But with his...

The journey Author's name: Radwa Ashour Running is a state I always live in. In my childhood, the energy of life within me was insistent and overflowing, so I ran. In my adolescence, I ran out of fear of my growing body and the...