Diaries of Wajih Ghaly.. Egyptian writer from the swinging sixties (two parts)

The diaries of Wajih Gali cover the period from 1964 to 1966 in the first part. In it, we get to know the intriguing and anxious personality of Gali, his sharp mood swings, and his constant thirst for love, understanding, and ecstasy, in a world tumultuous with dramatic changes on both cultural and political levels. We listen to the voice of the individual, the rebellious and anxious intellectual, the lonely and ostracized, and also the beloved. The diaries also present a vast panorama of English society during that period and the most important political and cultural currents of the time. As well as many diverse human models. Everything about Wajih Gali is surrounded by questions: his date of birth and suicide, his writing, his relationship with his family, his relationship with the ruling regime in Egypt, his journey to Israel after the 1967 defeat. In the second volume of Wajih Gali’s diaries, we follow the writer’s daily life from 1966 to 1968 before he ends his life and commits suicide in a London hospital on January 5, 1969. Wajih Gali reveals his highly sensitive personality. He narrates his search for moments of serenity or happiness, whether in alcohol, multiple romantic relationships, or in writing different literature. He does not cease to mock himself and his era. He analyzes and exposes himself harshly, depicting through his various relationships the swinging life of the sixties in London. His need for work, money, and food, his nostalgia for his life in Egypt, and his fear of the ruling regime, his diaries in the house of his writer girlfriend Diana Athil. Wajih Gali’s diaries