Kifah Tiba (Dar Al-Shorouk edition)

The rule followed in Egypt is that the rich steal from the poor, but it is not permissible for the poor to steal from the rich. This is how Naguib Mahfouz tells us, in a wonderful novel about the Egyptians' struggle to regain their freedom and expel the Hyksos invaders, amidst an atmosphere of an impossible love story between King Ahmose and the princess coming from the desert. The "Kifah Tiba" is a historical novel published in its first edition in 1944, narrating the life of a leader and his dream to liberate the homeland, and it is Mahfouz's last Pharaonic novel before turning to social novels. "Oppression, even if it falls on a single soul, harms all just spirits." Author: Naguib Mahfouz Pages: 121 Dar Al-Shorouk Publishing and Distribution