Novels & Short stories

Secret of Room 207 Author's name: Dr. Ahmed Khaled Tawfik Stephen King says: “In addition to stories about burying the living, every horror writer should write at least one story about haunted hotel rooms, because hotel rooms are inherently scary places. Imagine how many...

President's Room Author's name: Ricardo Romero There is no basement. All the houses in the neighborhood have no basements. They have been prohibited since my grandparents' time. They say that terrible things happened in basements, so it was decided that no more should be...

I regret you Author's name: Colin Hoover How do you gather the scattered pieces together without glue to stick them together? Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter Clara want nothing more than to be different from each other. Morgan does everything she can to...

Goodbye Toledo Andalusian novel Author's name: Dr. Mahmoud Maher It was a beginning, and the beginning of an end. A joyful, spacious, prosperous city, a gateway to the sun whose pulse is light, and whose valve is a river of Eve. Another blonde city...

A melody that will remain between us Author's name: Dr. Narmin Nahmad Allah When she first heard it (Ghazal), she didn't know it wouldn't just be a melody she loved, but a special code that would bring her heart back to its senses whenever...

Engagement Day Incident Author's name: Ahmed Medhat Selim Four protagonists' fates intertwine in a single day. The heroine wakes up seeking revenge on her lover, who is engaged to another woman. She connects with a young man over the phone by chance and begins...

Corpse Reader Memoirs of a British Anatomist in Royal Egypt Author Name: Sydney Smith Sidney Smith is a real-life clone of Joseph Bell, the Edinburgh surgeon who inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Keith Simpson, London's Chief Coroner Sydney Smith found in Egypt a...

Memories of Death Author Name: Hassan El-Gendy   A romance novelist, diagnosed with cancer, decides for unknown reasons to write his last novel about a real serial killer living in Cairo, unknown to the police because he manipulates crime scenes and diverts suspicion. The...

Prayer of the possessed Author's name: Hassan Al-Jundi To that weeping boy whom his teacher left alone in the grave at night, you tried to rid yourself of your fear of what surrounds you, forgetting to fear what is within you.

Shimon the Egyptian Papers Author's name: Osama Abdel Raouf El Shazly This concludes what Simeon son of Zachariah, also known as Simeon the Egyptian, wrote about the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sin, and what befell them from the crossing of the sea until...

The Covenant of Damiana Author's name: Osama Abdel Raouf El Shazly The palm trunk to which his body was bound rose towards the heavens. A sinful man, burdened with shame, he sought neither salvation for himself nor for others. From his cross, he gazed...

A hug that smells of paper Author's name: Mona Salama Where can a man and a woman meet? On a sprawling border, or in a vast meadow, a study bench or a work desk, a square or an alley, a celebration or a funeral,...

Fight Club Author's name: Chuck Palahniuk Translated by: Ahmed Khaled Tawfik Short, sharp, and brutal, it is one of the most impressive American novels of recent years. - Glasgow Herald Fight Club's first rule: Don't talk about Fight Club. Fight Club's second rule: Don't...

What if? (novel) Author's name: Sandra Siraj What if time and space did not govern us? What if you could live another life in your own way? Perhaps the hero of our story, “Shams,” will meet a girl who will change his concept of...

Forbidden Journeys of Mary Author: Tarek Ezz This is Alexandria, but not the city you know, not the gaudy colors or the streets washed with fresh rainwater... This is the other Alexandria, the Alexandria of fishing villages, drugs, prostitution, and false religion... The Alexandria...

Secrets of the Laal Author's name: Wadad Khalifa The secrets of "Al-Lal" unfold from the early 1950s to the early 1960s in the western region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, traversing a multitude of paths involving the British oil company, the Buraimi dispute,...

Tales told by killers Author's name: Ali Al-Fayez Before death wrapped its ropes around their necks, and before they were hanged for their crimes. There was stories Buried within them, they began to tell their cellmates and companions about the last moments of their lives about...

Me first Author's name: Al-Jawhara Al-Rimal I don't know how long I have to wait? But I know for sure that I was born only once My mom will never do it again. You have what has passed of my life My guardian is...

Exceptional love by moonlight Author's name: Samar Al-Qattan The story of a girl who sets out on her journey with her lifelong friends, but she is exposed to a shock in her life that makes her abandon love and reveal everything that is on...

Bilal's code Author's name: Dr. Ahmed Khairy Al-Omari It is one thing to be affected by the story of Bilal ibn Rabah, but it is quite another thing to have your entire life changed because of it. It's one thing for that to happen...