Gods' challenge

And one of the cunning of things is that prison, which is the opposite of freedom with superiority and distinction, has never been absent throughout history, nor does it lack overflowing freedom, from which we are familiar with the expression "prison literature" or "prison writing," and with a simple mathematical equation, to the extent that prison is widespread Arab and universal, we can expect the production of more of this literature. Unfortunately, the Arab world, with all the languages in which it writes and not only in Arabic, is an example of this equation. From thousands of stories witnessed by Egyptian prison during the days of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mahmoud Hussein chose to tell the story of a medical student whose political affiliation led him behind bars, turning prison into a retreat during which he reviewed his childhood, youth, and passion for reading, as well as his joining the Marxist organization and the university, where Nadia, the most beautiful and bravest of his colleagues, chose him as her lover and companion. It is true that Nadia’s love for him did not prevent him from being in prison, but her perseverance in writing to him made him a prisoner of his own fabric.