The Oasis of Sunset - Bahaa Taher

In his wonderful novel "Wahat Al-Ghoroub" which achieved great popular success and critical acclaim, the great writer Bahaa Taher returns to the late 19th century, and the beginning of British occupation of Egypt; where the Egyptian police officer Mahmoud Abdelzaher, who was living a carefree life between taverns and women of the night, is sent to Siwa Oasis; due to suspicions by the authorities of his sympathy with the revolutionary ideas of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Ahmed Urabi. He is accompanied to the oasis by his Irish wife "Catherine," who is passionate about antiquities and searching for Alexander the Great's tomb, to immerse in a new world of great richness and privacy, blending the past and the present, the subjective and the objective, and the historical, offering an exciting experience of the relationship between the East and the West on both human and civilizational levels, including conflict and harmony through a brave confrontation of the self in a time when opportunism, betrayal, and desire were mixed with love and heroism. Author's name: Bahaa Taher Publisher: Dar Al Shorouk Number of pages: 345