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Cats howling and dogs meowing Author's name: Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan On the cover of the novel we read: “As I was passing through Ramses Street, a huge monkey appeared next to me, a real monkey with thick hair, a distinctively curved body, and...

Who killed Maryam Al-Safi? Author's name: Muhammad Al-Mansi Qandil In 1970, while Mohamed El-Mansi Qandil was a student at Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, he won first prize in the story club for his story "The Song of the Empty Morgue," before including it in...

My father's shrine Author's name: Tariq Imam “My father sent for me, and I knew that today I would die… A strange saint, in a remote desert city, hundreds of years after his death, fathers a child with one of the city’s girls. Is...

mirage trees Author's name: Ibrahim Abdel Majeed The new edition of "Mirage Trees" includes the complete short stories of the great writer Ibrahim Abdel Majeed, bringing together eighteen previously unpublished stories. The stories are divided into four groups: "Old Ships," "Closing Windows," "The Tree...

Catching wind Author's name: Ibrahim Al-Mazni In this important book, Al-Mazni brings together a number of his most important articles, which address his views on major thinkers from the East and the West, and his opinion on the crisis surrounding Taha Hussein's book "On...

Ibrahim Al-Kateb Author's name: Ibrahim Al-Mazni In Al-Mazni's smooth and enjoyable style, we follow the love affairs of Ibrahim the writer, one of the most important figures in modern Arabic literature. Ibrahim escapes from his love affair with his nurse, Mary, to the home...

Ibrahim II Author's name: Ibrahim Al-Mazni One of the founding fathers of modern Arabic writing, including poetry, novels, journalism, criticism, and translation, he founded the Diwan Literary Group with Al-Aqqad and Abd al-Rahman Shukri to defend modernity against classical literature. His engaging articles, laced...

Layalina Bar Author's name: Ahmed Al-Fakharani Noah Al-Rahimi, the extra, resorts to a trick to infiltrate Layalina Bar, a bar frequented only by an elite group of intellectuals. He hopes to understand, by emulating them, the secret that turned him into a idiot with...

Al-Farouk Omar Author's name: Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi Omar was the first ruler in history to guarantee people freedom of belief and freedom of thought, and to nurture human dignity, respect, determination and pride. He was the first ruler in Islam to gather people to...

I went to the waterfall Author's name: Bahaa Taher Bahaa Taher is a clear writer who is in control of his material and tools, new in his vision and unique in the type of his performance. Honesty is the first tone that greets you...

Short Stories - Bahaa Taher Author's name: Bahaa Taher Some of Bahaa Taher's short stories include: "The Engagement", "Yesterday I Dreamed of You", "I Am the King, I Came", "East of the Palm Trees", and "Doha Said"

Writing with a scalpel Author's name: Iman Yahya A novel that invades the world of hospitals and universities, revealing what was unspoken during and after the stormy years of the January Revolution. He knows that a skilled surgeon is the one who reaches his...

Ash'ab, the king of parasites Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim The Arabs saw the highest art in brevity, that is, concentration, while the West sees the richest art in prolixity, that is, analysis. If we could reconcile the two theories and combine the two arts,...

Cockroach's fate Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim Among all his plays, "The Fate of a Cockroach" stands out for its angry, protesting tone, a strong tone that had never appeared in Al-Hakim's works before! It's as if he foresaw with his artistic flair the events...

Bird from the East Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim With the publication of this novel in 1938, Tawfiq al-Hakim added a new dimension to his pioneering work, cementing his role as one of the fathers of the Arabic novel with his easy-going style, his astonishing...

Arab facts Author's name: Muhammad Al-Mansi Qandil Graves conceal bodies, but souls remain alive and free, filling the ether around us and seeping into our living moments to tell their stories. History never dies, and its specters never cease to take shape: kings, princes,...

Dinner with Aisha Author's name: Muhammad Al-Mansi Qandil It's not an ordinary dinner. It's a first date between a shy young man and an intrusive girl. It doesn't end like any other romantic date, but rather turns into a strange experience that lies on...

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...

Hide and seek Author's name: Walid Alaa El-Din In "Hide and Seek," a boy and a girl find themselves on the stage of life, a place of spectacle, selection, and participation. Spectacle requires two eyes, selection requires knowledge, and participation cannot take place without...

Something like that Author's name: Ibrahim Aslan The second time I came across that "ebony pen" was in one of the schools I attended. It was with one of the students in the class. He kept it in his locked drawer. When he unlocked...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...