The neighborhood is always surrounded by an aura of privacy that the soul often longs to penetrate to uncover its secrets. Tales of Our Neighborhood brings the reader closer to the neighborhood, penetrating its privacy and becoming one of its members. They live with and interact with the characters, getting to know Umm Abdu, the most powerful woman in the neighborhood, and Ihsan, the miniature version of her mother, and Sabri, the polite, intelligent-eyed cousin, and Saluma, the first martyr from the neighborhood, and Ali, and Ali… The reader then goes to the square with the boys of the neighborhood, to the house of Al-Qayrawani, to the book, and to and to… A fantasy roams the neighborhood, delighting the soul and the eye with the sight of the images of its stories that flow smoothly from the screen of Naguib Mahfouz’s pages.
Tales of Our Neighborhood
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A social novel that tells stories of daily life in a working-class neighborhood in Cairo, shedding light on the contradictions of people and their struggles with reality.
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