Amber birds

"Amber Birds" is the second part of the "Alexandria Trilogy" by the great novelist Ibrahim Abdel Megid. The novel deals with Alexandria after the announcement of the nationalization of the Suez Canal and the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt in 1956, and the thousands of foreigners leaving. It addresses what this sudden change caused in the almost complete transformation of this cosmopolitan city where Egyptians, Greeks, Italians, French, English, Jews, and others lived in harmony and complete peace. Ibrahim Abdel Megid observes a major irreversible turning point for one of the greatest cities of the East, not writing about geography or history but revealing the spirit of the place, the spirit of Alexandria, the spirit of liberation, instability, caprice, and the spirit of sadness and madness.