Dreams of return, by: Kamal Raheem

A social historical novel consisting of three parts calling for tolerance between religions and acceptance of others, and attempting to differentiate between what is called "Yahudiya" (Jewish) who takes Judaism as one of the heavenly religions as his religion, and Zionist who takes "Zionism" as a worldly political principle as his religion. The trilogy of Jews is a social historical novel made up of three parts calling for tolerance between religions and acceptance of others, and trying to distinguish between what is called "Yahudiya" (Jewish), who adopts Judaism as a heavenly religion, and Zionist, who adopts "Zionism" as a worldly political principle as his religion. Through an exciting social story starring "Jalal," a Muslim Jew who was born to a Muslim father who embraced his religion and a religious mother who adopted her principles and fanaticism of Judaism, and through it, he narrates some stories and tales of seventy-five thousand Jews who lived in the first half of the twentieth century inside Egypt. The first part of the novel, "The Muslim Jew," was published in 2004 and won the State Encouragement Award in 2005. The novel was translated into English. The second part of the novel, "Days of the Diaspora," was published in 2009 and received the State Encouragement Award in 2009. It was translated into English and French. The third part, "Dreams of Return," was published in 2012. However, the novel gained wide fame after "Dar Al-Ain for Publishing and Distribution" republished it in 2020, participating with the novel in the fifty-second session of the Cairo International Book Fair, achieving the highest sales for the publisher at that time. The novel tells the story of an Egyptian Muslim young man who falls in love with an Egyptian Jewish girl and decides to marry her in the mid-1950s, a period when Jews suffered from persecution in Egypt due to the Tripartite Aggression in 1956. During this war, the young lover went to fight and kill the Israelis, who represented the tribe of his wife and her kin. His wife allowed him to go to war to defend the honor and dignity of her homeland, Egypt. She never felt that she was not Egyptian, and her love for her homeland was no less important than her love for her kin.