From the Memories of Art and the Judiciary

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The book “From the Memories of Art and the Judiciary” is a landmark in literary writing. It is a collection of diaries by a deputy in the countryside, focusing on a specific deputy, his life, his inclinations, and circumstances that may not be frequently observed by those around him. The framework within which these memories unfold is the same social framework that reflects a picture of life in the provinces, far from the major cities. He begins his book by stating that when he was a deputy prosecutor in the city of [here he places three dots in parentheses, without mentioning the city’s name. This was a habit of Tawfiq al-Hakim’s.] He continues: “Nothing troubled me more than the head of the prosecution. He was a man who had only two hobbies in the world: smoking shisha and harming others.”