There is an influence of 'In the wake of' (or 'Following') 'Ainayat Al-Zayyat'

Author's name: Iman Morsal Category: Short stories and novels Publisher: Khan Books for Publishing Anayat transforms from an unknown writer into Naddaha who haunts me, before I see her picture, hear a part of her news, and feel that I am drawn from my nose to know her. I was searching for the treasure, for her personal archive that must be there, scattered between houses and the geography of Cairo and in the memory of those remaining of her life from neighborhoods. Destroying Anayat's personal archive seemed like a disaster at first, but her absence made me follow the trace of what was erased. It made me think that my ambition is not to display her life in pages of a book; presenting the life of a dead person is a participation in flattening and continuously emptying the past of its meaning. I told myself, I should not speak on her behalf, I should not present a draft of her life. There is a moment of intersection between us, I will make this moment work like a spiritual guide, and we will differ greatly in everything else. Perhaps she herself exists only in the margins that escaped the control of institutions, family, and friends; perhaps I should have followed her traces in "Al-Halik," in the geography she studied, lived, and died in— the street, the cemetery, the German school, and the German Archaeological Institute. In the law of personal status and divorce case, in the context of rejecting the narrative and publishing it, in dreams, friendship, love, depression, and death. Stories of everyone whose life intersected with hers seemed like part of her story to me. I wanted to know them one by one because they passed through her life.