New Cairo

Mohjoub Abdel Daeem faces an economic crisis that makes him angry at his social situation and ready to do anything that helps him wealth and jump to higher and more prestigious positions, even if that costs him the marriage of appearance to his neighbor Ehsan, the secret mistress of the "Pasha", so that they have a safe way for intimate meeting, believing in his moral principle that says in a blunt interview with his colleagues who believe in the Islamic current or the socialist doctrine to embody the political movement and class suffering in its ugliest manifestations. The novel was published in 1946, and it was adapted to the cinema screen in the film "Cairo 30" directed by Salah Abu Sief in 1966.