الكرنك

A novel written with the worries and pains of a people over pages and sheets of its history. This is the book that carries the novel "Al-Karnak" by Naguib Mahfouz, which caused a big stir when it was published, and that was two years before the October War, meaning during the period of neither peace nor war, which the Egyptians tasted the bitterness of after a bitter and painful defeat in 1967. Its events revolve around the world of youth, politics, and prisons. We see the corridors of power and security institutions, how they are managed, and what their foundations are — whether justice and respect for human dignity or otherwise. We see it among those whom fate gathered around one table in their only refuge and that of others... in the "Al-Karnak" café, which was a witness to a harsh past, a fearful present, and an uncertain future.