Reem Bassiouny, an Egyptian writer, novelist, and professor at the American University, has won many awards, including: the Sawiris Culture Award for her novel “Doctor Hanaa”, the Best Translated Work Award in the United States of America for her novel “The Pistachio Seller”, the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature from the Supreme Council of Culture for her novel “Awlad El Nas: The Mamluk Trilogy”, and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2024.
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Al-Halwani “The Fatimid Trilogy”
$12.00It tells the story of Egypt and its people and what happened to them under the rule of Jawhar al-Siqilli, Badr al-Jamali, and Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi. And how the people of Egypt lived through many events through Sondos and Jawhar bin Hussein al-Siqilli in the first novel, and Veron and Badr al-Jamali in the second novel, and Rashida and Ibrahim al-Siqilli in the third novel; to navigate the world of events over two centuries, and realize how the waves of politics, religion, and love clashed.
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Al-Qata’i’ “Ibn Tulun Trilogy”
$12.00A historical story that sheds light on the period of Ahmed Ibn Tulun’s rule in Egypt during the ninth century AD, and deals with the establishment of the city of Al-Qata’i as the new capital of Egypt at that time. The novel highlights the interaction between social classes, politics, and culture in that period, through characters belonging to different spectrums, reflecting the complexities of life in the time of Ibn Tulun. In her distinctive literary style, Reem Bassiouni combines historical narrative and imagination, to offer the reader an in-depth look at this influential era in Egyptian history.
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Children of the People The Mamluk Trilogy
$12.00The novel Awlad El Nas by Reem Bassiouni is a unique literary work that blends history, love, and human conflicts. The novel takes place in the Mamluk era, where it reviews the lives of people in that era through stories of love, traditions, class and religious conflicts. The novel offers a deep vision of the relationship between man, place, and history, while shedding light on the common human values despite social differences. In her smooth and exciting style, Reem Bassiouni revives history in a way that makes the reader immerse himself in the details of daily life and culture at that time.
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