معتوق الخير

Set among the Nubians of the Nile valley in the last decades of Ottoman rule, this two-volume saga watches a whole community hold on to its ways and change in spite of them. Its many characters live parallel lives that keep crossing: the individual is seen in the mirror of the clan and the clan in the mirror of the individual, and those who rebel against custom pay for it as surely as those who submit. The river, the mountain, the sun and the stars, birds, beasts and trees, wind and rain, flood seasons and harvests shape their days alongside the human drama.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Egypt, late Ottoman era

First published

2002 by al-Majlis al-A'la lil-Thaqafa

Author's age

58 when first published