The cow's belly

And the Cairo downtown area, which in modern times was known as Azbakiyah, was a swamp called Birkat Batn al-Baqarah, perhaps because its shape was similar to a cow's belly, before Prince Azbak al-Khazen dar came and turned it into a built basin with an engineering system bearing his name: Azbakiyah, and it became a wonderful tourist attraction, surrounded by palaces, sidewalks, cornices, and lush gardens. * * * This geography is an unprecedented literary experience for our great writer Khairy Shalaby, a skillful blend of geography and novel, it is a novel of geography, a story of a specific place, in which he focused on the facts of the place and its aesthetics both historically and socially, so it was like writing in the science of plans, telling us about characters, events, and times that sometimes flourish and sometimes fade. Author: Khairy Shalaby Number of pages: 264