Written on the forehead - Stories on the margin of the autobiography

Author's name: Jalal Amin Publisher: Al-Karima for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2015 Literary classification: Biographies and Memoirs Book summary: The author says about this enjoyable book: That we spend our lives and write books without saying except a small part of the truth, and this is one of the motives that drive me to write these stories. Who has lived like me eighty years, must have met in his life a large number of people, men and women, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, Egyptians and foreigners, etc. And when I recall in my mind the impressions I have about this person or that, from those I have known over the years, I am amazed... I found most of these (indeed I can say all of them) to be mysteries difficult to understand. I loved many of them very much, and I was strongly repelled by many others, but I found them all, whether I loved or hated them, to be "human mysteries," I cannot understand how these conflicting traits gathered in one person, or how his behavior can be consistent with one person in a certain way, while completely opposite with another person, or even with the same person at another time. In fact, I noticed that even with people I considered very clear and completely consistent with themselves for a long time, I am surprised afterward by actions from them that are incomprehensible, and they suddenly turn into mysteries in my eyes, as if I never truly knew them. I tried to gather in this book a few examples from much of what I encountered in my life of human mysteries. Writing these stories is not the beginning of a new work, but rather a gathering and organizing of my old things. Now, I care that I do not leave anything important behind me, but even if I did, I think that what I have gathered is enough and more.