The passing of lives

The new collection includes 16 short stories, divided into four groups. The first titled "Echo of an Old Bell" contains three stories: "The Departure of Donkeys," "Another Life," and "Aynin (with a kasra on the 'Ayn)." The second group is titled "The Virtue of the Mirage" and includes five stories: "The Heat of Migration," "The Dawn of the Ears of Grain," "A Mandatory Duty," "Thurayya," and "The Passion of the Torturer." The third group contains a single story titled "Brief Tales." The fourth group, titled "The Feminine Wisdom," includes seven short stories: "Songs of 'Est' called Isis in confusion," "The Virtuous Hypatia—dividing two eras," "The Chaos of the Ages—after sanctifying 'Serapis' and desecrating 'Hathor'," "Restoring the missed dawn by mentioning the glory of the goddess Ma'at," "Theology and humanity in the biography of Hatshepsut," "The alienation of Tii—and the estrangement of Nefertiti," "The most dangerous choice: the fall of Cleopatra—or the fall of the military?" Regarding the new story collection, Dr. Yusuf Zidan says: "It reflects, collectively, the emptiness of people's lives in our current time, the meagerness, and the futility of our satirical reality that contains no wisdom, nor wisdom behind it." Book information: • Author: Yusuf Zidan • Year of publication: 2019 • Publisher: Al-Shorouk • Number of pages: 199