The bird's prayer

But your voice, oh dear bird, reaches me and pulls me forcefully from this deep silence, so I jump in fear and horror, and he jumps in fear and horror, then we do not linger long before security returns to us and calmness is restored, as for me, two wide tears fall on my cheek, and as for him, he says while resting his hands on the table, Call of the nightingale! Do you see him returning this echo when Hanadi was struck down in that vast space!!". The echoes of the nightingale's voice still resonate on the pages of Taha Hussein despite the passage of time, for that nightingale, through which he wrote this expressive human story about the state of Egyptian society at that time, was a symbol of a female voice crying out her sorrows across the horizon, with no responder but silence and echo and silence. To see all Mustafa Mahmoud's books, click here. Number of pages: 136. Year of publication: 2024. Publisher: Dar Diwan for Publishing and Distribution.