The Epic of the Al-Harafish

Najeeb's epic, the greatest and most important, in which the human soul is described and torn between seeking salvation and pursuing pleasures. Ten stories, crowded with everything in life of conflict, sweetness, and seduction, in which the sons of "the Great Savior" appear as reformers seeking justice and goodness in their own way, standing against injustice and enduring temptation and human instincts; they fall and triumph, corrupt and reform, in an astonishing epic in which generations succeed each other over two centuries since the era of the Great Savior until the last Ashour Naji. The novel was published in 1977 and its stories were adapted to the cinema six times in the eighties and then to television in 2002.