The Critical House

The House of the Crete: Author: Writing: Mahmoud Rady / Illustrations: Mohamed Wahba El-Shenawy Language: Arabic Publication date: 2024 Book format: Paperback Publisher: Aseer Books for Translation, Publishing, and Distribution Number of pages: 82 Description: At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the heart of old Cairo, British officer Gair Anderson's eyes fell on a strange house he had never seen before, and he felt it held hidden secrets, but when he meets Sheikh Suleiman the Cretian, head of the Cretian family, he is taken through a chain of stories more strange than fiction surrounding this strange house, which has become a main pillar in Egyptian popular imagination.