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During the year 2023, a large number of prominent writers and literary figures published many new works, including novels, books, and short story collections, starting with the Cairo International Book Fair, which was held in January of this year, and continuing through the months of 2023.
The list of the most prominent new works by major writers and writers published in 2023 included the following:
Ordinary days – Adel Esmat
The beginning of the year was with new publications that participated in the Cairo International Book Fair in early 2023, led by the short story collection “Ordinary Days,” by the writer and novelist Adel Esmat.
In his collection of short stories, “Ordinary Days,” Adel Esmat presented stories about people and their lives, with graphic abilities that make readers sleep at night around burning firewood, increasing their imagination, warmth, and those intimate details that stand as a shield against deadly loneliness. In a narration based on observing paradoxes, such as the deceased whose face was not lost, the resident who was absent, the expensive which became cheap, and the ordinary which turned out to be more precious than gold.
In “Ordinary Days,” we are about to encounter familiar encounters with street names, people, and decorations from various Egyptian environments. We also enter forgotten worlds between the lobbies of public libraries and the noisy joys of the countryside, filled with the atmosphere of worlds and smoke. Adel Esmat's characters always have a wealth of rich details, embodied in the reader's imagination, touching on memories he himself lived.
Together, the narrative elements paint a deep picture of desires, hopes, dreams, and pitfalls, in which women and men are equal in the ability to dream and be responsible. Weaknesses appear after strength, strength after weakness, and details creep in from memory stores to link the past with the present in the permanent act of becoming that expresses the essence of life.
Old newspaper holder – Ibrahim Abdel Majeed
Likewise, the novel “The Old Newspaper Holder” by the great writer Ibrahim Abdel Majeed, which was published in conjunction with the exhibition this year, by Dar Al-Shorouk for Publishing and Distribution.
And from the atmosphere of the novel: “The narrator leaves his house, which has become a confinement to him, to the café in the center of the country, to find the newspaper carrier, who was separated by the Corona virus, still carrying his old newspapers, and the novel does not end except with the increase in the number of those who also began carrying old newspapers, so Egypt enters, as the café’s waiters said. “Guinness Book of Records is about those who run away with old newspapers from what is around them.”
In his novel, Ibrahim Abdel Majeed takes us on a new adventure in writing in form and subject, as we are accustomed to. Where the novel flows in an innovative artistic construction about what its heroes live between laughter, free loss, and pain, in a reality that exceeds all imagination.
Egyptian Legion – Muhammad Abu Al-Ghar
Also coinciding with the 2023 Book Fair last January, Dar Al-Shorouk issued the book The Egyptian Legion by Dr. Muhammad Abu Al-Ghar.
In his new book, Dr. Muhammad Abu Al-Ghar discusses the Egyptian Legion project that was prepared during World War I, which is considered one of the most important topics in Egypt’s modern history, and he spent a huge research effort on it.
It was preceded by a doctoral thesis published by the University of Texas by the American historian Kyle Anderson, which drew attention to the fact that there were about half a million Egyptian peasants who were forcibly enrolled in the Egyptian Legion accompanying the British forces during most of the years of World War I.
Egypt's population was about 12 million at the time, and the workforce in all fields was estimated at three million. This means that one-sixth of this force, or half of the peasant force, was out of service.
Peace be upon Ibrahim – Muhammad Afifi
Likewise, historian Dr. Mohamed Afifi presented during the 2023 Cairo Book Fair his novel “Peace be upon Abraham,” which takes place in the three years that followed the end of the war, beginning at the beginning of 1946, and ending with the bloody conclusion of 1948, and through what goes on between its characters, most of whom are characters. True history, we discover some of what was going on behind the scenes of the royal palace at that time.
Dr. Imad Abu Ghazi, the former Minister of Culture, said about it: In his new novel, “Peace be upon Abraham,” Muhammad Afifi takes us to the years after World War II in Egypt. The years whose events paved the way for the profound changes that determined the fate of Egypt for many decades to come.
Izzat Al-Qamhawi – The chef is killed.. The writer commits suicide
The great writer and novelist Izzat Al-Qamhawi also published a new book under the title “The Chef Kills… The Writer Commits Suicide,” at the 2023 Book Fair.
On the cover of the book it says: Skill alone is not enough to write a novel or cook a good dish, fire is necessary; Even if a candle flame burns in the heart of the writer and the chef, and in this book, Izzat Al-Qamhawi reviews his passion for writing and cooking, as he believes that they are twins, and in the beginning they were feminine work. For this reason, the male writer still needs to feminize his soul. To learn humility, patience, and resourcefulness through cooking. Al-Qamhawi contemplates the building skills in the dish and the book, and compares the results of “kneading and turning” in baked goods and books.
It attempts to expose the fraud practiced by some writers and chefs by escalating the fat, salt and spice, and celebrates the works of skilled writers: Naguib Mahfouz, Marcel Proust and Borges, and chefs: Emeril Lagasse, Jamie Oliver, and Nadia Hussein. He always returns to the kitchen of greatness, “One Thousand and One Nights.”
The scourge of our neighborhood between memory and forgetfulness – Ibrahim Abdel Majeed
The book “The Scourge of Our Neighborhood Between Memory and Forgetting” was also published by the writer Ibrahim Abdel Majeed during the current year 2023. .
Among the atmosphere of the book: “Ibrahim Abdel Majeed remembers and sheds light on what has been forgotten or neglected from the pages of the spiritual and material history of the country… the spiritual history, including the struggle for freedom, and the material history, including the remnants of a renaissance in architecture, roads, gardens, and whatever you like… The writer invites us To remember with him is life. Here are articles that reflect a deep journey of study and understanding through history and experiences. They contain answers, but they remind us of the big questions of life and are not just passing comments. They were published in important websites and newspapers in Egypt and abroad, as well as follow-ups to some of the wonderful books that were published in Recent years have left their mark on our cultural life.”
We continue: “Palestine is present with the resistance here or with its poets like Mahmoud Darwish. What is amazing is that everyone who wrote about them, like Ahmed Fouad Najm or Muhammad Aboul Gheit and other supporters of truth and Palestine, is present among us among them, and the departed is not absent. Likewise, whoever wrote about their books. It is not a coincidence. But he is the great writer Ibrahim Abdel Majeed, whose soul is never absent from homeland and hope. Here is a talk about the earth’s abundance and its goodness of thought and people that transcends any siege, for every siege is fleeting, no matter how long it lasts.”
Al-Warraq – Youssef Zidane
Writer and thinker Youssef Zidan published his latest writing this year, which was called “Al-Rawaq” and was published by Dar Al-Shorouk.
Youssef Zidan says about the novel: Aladdin “Ibn al-Nafis” lived for eighty years, during which he experienced an enormous amount of horrors and events: the Crusades and the horrific seventh campaign against Damietta and northern Egypt, the invasion of the Mongols and the fall of Baghdad at the hands of Hulagu, and the power struggles between the last generation. From the Ayyubids and the first generation of Mamluk rulers, the Hisn al-Din Thalab revolution, the severe clashes between Aqtai, Aybak, Qutuz, Baybars, and Qalawun..
Al-Ala Ibn al-Nafis was close to all of this. He was the private physician to al-Zahir Baybars, and the chief physician of Egypt and the Levant. Despite the turmoil of his time, he never stopped writing about medicine, thought, and the sciences of his time, and he left us thousands of pages after him. So how did he live? “Ibn al-Nafis” and what facts of his life dictated to “Al-Warraq” who was forty years younger than him and lived forty years after him? This is what this novel tells
Sphinx – Ahmed Murad
In October 2023, the latest novel by the writer Ahmed Murad was published by Dar Al-Shorouk for Publishing and Distribution, which is the novel “The Sphinx”, which… She bears the number 8 in his literary career.
The novel revolves around the “forbidden diaries” of the photographer and forensic expert, Suleiman Effendi Al-Siyoufi, in which he recorded the details of a mysterious criminal case, the events of which took place during the outbreak of the plague epidemic in the nineteenth century in Cairo, after the appearance of a corpse floating in the waters of the Nile, carrying many… Of secrets.
The events began during the period of Suleiman Efendi’s imprisonment in Liman Demirkhana Prison, with lifelong hard labor (“Category M”), under harsh and deadly conditions, the effects of which were reflected in his psychological state, and led to the exacerbation of his disorder, which psychiatrists classified as severe paranoid schizophrenia, the symptoms of which were It combines delusions of persecution and paranoia accompanied by severe delusions, its effect doubled due to Solomon’s sudden and forced cessation of taking “John’s herbs” that soothe the symptoms, and despite this; “Al-Siyoufi” was able to chronicle an exciting adventure fraught with dangers on all sides.
Maximum speed is zero – Ashraf El Ashmawy
The novel “Maximum Speed Zero” by Ashraf El Ashmawy was also published in 2023.
The novel tells the story of an Egyptian family who lived in the Garden City neighborhood in Cairo many years before the July Revolution and suffered for many years after it. Strange events and complex characters whose destinies intertwine until the end.
Between truth and fiction, Al-Ashmawy recounts the threads of the story and weaves its chapters slowly. He tells us stories of childhood, love, adventure, escape, crime, conspiracy, and political struggles with religious authority on a single seat through an accurate depiction of a society whose sun set many years ago, but whose warmth has not cooled yet.
Mario and Abu Abbas – Reem Bassiouni
The writer, Dr. Reem Bassiouni, published the novel “Mario and Abu Al-Abbas” this year, and the Nahdet Misr House published the novel “Mario and Abu Al-Abbas.”
It is an interesting historical novel about the journey of the Sufi saint “Mursi Abu Al-Abbas” from Andalusia to Alexandria and the era of the Italian architect “Mario Rossi,” who designed and built more than 250 mosques in Egypt.
The events of the novel take place between the era of the Mursi Sufi Abu Al-Abbas, and the era of the Italian architectural designer Mario Rossi. Despite the distance in time between the two characters and the events that accompanied them, the writer Reem Bassiouni presents to us their lives and how she knows the Italian architectural designer who built many mosques for the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments. In the character of Al-Marsa Abu Al-Abbas when he was commissioned to design and implement the construction of his mosque in Alexandria in the 1930s.
Nasser Iraq – Me, my uncle, and Immobilia
The great writer Nasser Iraq also published in 2023 the novel “Me and My Uncle… and Immobilia.”
From the atmosphere of the novel: The German “Robert Scharfenberg” took refuge in Egypt to escape from the Gestapo men in Nazi Germany, and he had barely settled down and started working in cinema with the help of his Egyptian friend, until that friend died, leaving his only son “Fikri” in the care of “Scharfenberg.”
When Scharfenberg's niece, Elsa, comes to stay with him in the Immobilia building, Fikri begins to get close to her and try to arouse her interest, while Scharfenberg falls in love with Zuzu, whom Fikri suspects of being an intelligence agent. He decides to devote himself to uncovering the truth about this mysterious woman
Naomi and her sisters – Hisham Al-Khashen
This year, the Egyptian Lebanese Publishing House also published a new novel by writer Hisham El-Khashen called “Naomi and Her Sisters.”
And in the novel, Hisham Al-Khashin takes us on a journey through the complexities of the human soul, so that the heroine experiences her life’s struggles from an area where voices are mixed and turns into characters with different features and ideas, but in the end she seeks to reach a future without new traumas.
In the context of the novel “Naomi and Her Sisters,” we read: Who among us does not hear voices within ourselves? Voices often turn into characters that talk to us and we talk to them. We hide them well, so they become secrets that we are unable to reveal. When we are able to speak about what is going on inside us, our inhibitions multiply, and then soon the moment comes when we are unable to conceal them, or perhaps we find people who… We ask them to listen unconditionally. Then the voices integrate to become, if they are destined to be, one voice; Therefore, it was not strange that the voices of “Naima,” “Namaat,” and “Noni” alternated over Naomi, even if the voices became faint, or she tried to silence them.
Wiksat Al-Shawish – Kamal Rahim’s latest work
The last literary work published by the late writer and novelist was the novel “Waksa Al-Shawish,” which was published by Dar Al-Shorouk for Publishing and Distribution before his death this year.
From the atmosphere of the novel: “I am Adel Hassan Al-Atfi.. My father was one of the masters of the universe in my view. It is difficult for me to see him as small, broken, and like a comet in the hand of a woman, even if it was my mother. My father was a sergeant, and I was confused at the time in my understanding of my mother’s relationship with the fugitive, torn between… Denunciation and anger. This was my world, the world of children who lacked awareness. I was only aroused when someone shared my mother with me. This was my problem; and now I have grown a little.. and my anger has become the anger of boys who are entering the age of youth. Denunciation and anger have remained with me and have been with me since childhood, and have followed them. Apprehension and anger were followed by even greater anger, until the tragedy began.
The novel “Waksa Al-Shawish” reveals psychological interactions and societal interactions woven by the late novelist Kamal Rahim through an exciting narrative game filled with amazing elegance.
My Mother's Rooster – Hamdi Abu Jalil's latest work
Likewise, the late writer Hamdi Abu Jalil, who passed away this year, published his last novel, “My Mother’s Rooster,” after his death.
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