Jeddah Temptation - Novel

The novel / Fitna Jeddah, by the author / Maqbool Al-Alawi, is a dramatic historical story that takes place in Jeddah during a turbulent period of its history. The novel revolves around two main characters: "Mansour Al-Tihami," whose life swings between a modest past and new hope when he lives near his enchanting neighbor "Fitna," and "Namik Pasha," who tries to contain the crisis between the chaos of the city and the violence of events such as the killing of foreign consuls and the bombing of British ships. The novel weaves between the personal and political levels, reviewing the internal and external seditions that swept the city, in a work that combines suspense and historical documentation of the social and political atmosphere of that era.