The torchbearer

Author's name: Ayman Rajab Taher

Al-Mashaalji by Ayman Rajab Taher... If you love to go back to life between the turmoil of leader Ahmed Orabi and the revolution of leader Saad Zaghloul and live those events, then in the novel (Al-Mashaalji) there are the events of that period in Egypt’s history and what came before it from digging the Suez Canal and what came after it from the British invasion and the bombing of Alexandria and the occupation of our country and the struggle of our great people against them. Al-Mashaalji Fayd Allah Ifrit Al-Layl lived that long period and narrated its events and incidents to his granddaughter Munifa and her fiancé Ubaid and his friend Abdul Rahman Al-Rafei. He and his life partner Maruf were both witnesses to those years and the emergence of artistic and literary figures such as Younis Al-Qadi, Sayed Darwish, Munira Al-Mahdiyya, Badi’ Khairi and Kishkish Bey’s theater and what it presented in confronting the British occupier alongside the resistance of all classes of the people. New and wonderful details that make you live the events as if you were one of the people of Cairo and all parts of Egypt