Love above the Giza Plateau

One of the most famous collections of Mahfouz's stories and the most adapted for the cinema and television screen, where five stories out of the eight that make it up have been turned into four films and a TV series. In these stories, symbolism mixes with realism in an astonishing way, so that the line between reality and imagination diminishes. In each story, there is a complete life that does not evoke the usual sense of compression in a short story, as it depicts a scene from the heavy impacts on Egyptian society in the late seventies resulting from the shift to the capitalist system, with all the economic suffering, moral decline, and a battleground of competitiveness and opportunism that it brought to the middle class.