cow's belly

Author's name: Khairy Shalaby

“The downtown area of ​​Cairo, known in modern times as Azbakeya, was a swamp called the Batn al-Baqara Pool, perhaps because its shape closely resembled the belly of a cow. That was before Prince Azbak al-Khazindar came and transformed it into a pond built with an architectural design that bears his name: Azbakeya. It became a beautiful tourist attraction, surrounded by palaces, sidewalks, cornices, and lush gardens.”
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This geography novel is an unprecedented literary experience by our great writer, Khairy Shalabi, a brilliant combination of geography and the novel. It is a novel of geography, a novel of a specific place, in which he dealt with the facts of the place and its aesthetics from both the historical and social perspectives. It was as if he was writing in the science of plans, telling us about characters, events and times that sometimes flourish and sometimes fade away.