The antique shop, authored by Nasser Iraq

The novelist Nasser Iraq blends reality with imagination, through a hidden and sincere relationship with the carpenter Ramadan Al-Mohamedi, and a relationship between Mastoora and Josephine with Ahmed Effendi Kamal, where the imagined role here is to reveal the essence of life, and to seize the essential elements that the writer projects onto history. "Suddenly I glimpsed a woman resembling Mastoora... and I found myself wondering where she went? And why does my wife insist on retrieving her? Is it because she is active and clean, perhaps? ... Or because a woman cannot tolerate being betrayed by another woman without knowing the reason? And I quickly forgot Mastoora when we passed by the Antikkhana in Bulaq, and I noticed that they had finished renovating it after suffering significant damage due to the Nile flood, and I was very happy because they renewed the sign and wrote on it in Arabic 'Dar Al-Athar Al-Masriya' (House of Egyptian Antiquities) and below it, the Antikkhana. "The Antikkhana" draws inspiration from history to present us with a mural depicting the establishment of Khedive Ismail's first Egyptian higher school for the study of Egyptian antiquities, headed by the German archaeologist Heinrich Brugsch. In 1872, seven students graduated, including "Ahmed Effendi Kamal," who later became Egypt's first Egyptologist, and an assistant secretary at the Antikkhana. Number of pages: 256