The doer

The novel builds... a new different Cairo, it is Cairo of the doers who built it and changed the face of the familiar literary Atlas forever. From the reasons for winning the novel "The Doer" the Naguib Mahfouz Prize in 2008. An enjoyable novel woven by its author in a rich language with a taste not devoid of a delightful specificity... through about thirty short chapters that present characters, events, and relationships against a backdrop of sand, bricks, Zalat (a type of building material), demolition and renovation properties, and the doers, porters, and oyster whiteners, back entrances, and underground passages, a world perhaps never encountered before in a novelist, and you see the narrator carrying his dreams as a writer in sandbags, rising and falling believing that they are the dreams of the entire nation. Ibrahim Aslan. By virtue of my human and professional relationship with Hamdi Abu Jaleel, I could sense from his talk about his memories, his anecdotes about his family, and his many stories about their notables, very rich details. If it happens that among the sons of this world there is a talented young man in the art of novel writing, then he is destined to be a great novelist who challenges. Many figures wished they had even a small part of this rich world from which our young writer Hamdi Abu Jaleel emerged. What is in it of strangeness and sharp savage behaviors surpasses the strangeness of Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, and Gabriel García Márquez. Kharri Shalabi. The model of authentic, bold, and renewed narrative writing is an original novel in terms of the freshness of the vision it is built upon and its uniqueness that grants it a kind of exclusivity.