Al-Maqrizi's Marginalia: Tales from Egypt

This book contains 180 entertaining and astonishing tales from the history of Egypt, covering the period between the Middle Ages and the 1919 revolution. The great historian and capable journalist Salah Issa sheds light on situations and events, most of which are unknown, providing the reader's mind with all the connotations of their era. Tales like the people: kind and cruel, gentle and violent. And situations that sing of the memories of a great past, extracting from it the inescapable law of evolution: the people are neither defeated nor perish. In the lengthy conclusion of the book, our great author reveals some of what happened behind the scenes of journalism when these tales were published, causing an uproar and commotion, and leading to problems and annoyances for the editor-in-chief of Al-Jumhuriya newspaper at the time. Some even considered them one of the few reasons that cost him his position.