Nostalgia for the closed circle

Badr Al Rifa'i lived a busy life in Egypt, most of the details he now tells about have disappeared, so his enjoyable biography comes as documentation and revival of a bygone era and people who have passed away. Badr Al Rifa'i was born in the year of the Nakba (1948), a communist child. The father is a professional communist, working secretly, always wanted by the police, and mostly disappears. The mother is from a modest family, works in a textile factory, and is active among the workers. Through his biography and exciting memories, we learn about life in the Egyptian countryside in the 1950s, where Badr Al Rifa'i spent his early years with his father's family, and we learn about his life in Shubra during his childhood and youth, his journalism practice while studying it at Cairo University, his work in illiteracy eradication, his years of conscription at the beginning of the seventies, his political and union activity, then his work as a technical secretary at Dar Al-Fata Al-Arabi, and his translation of important books that added much to the Arab library. Badr Al Rifa'i also tells us about his friends from the symbols of journalism, literature, and art in the seventies and eighties, reviving a wonderful country that no longer exists. Author: Badr Al Rifa'i Dar Al-Karma