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رحلات الطرشجي الحلوجي

Pages
270
Published
1983
Language
Arabic

Synopsis

Imagine being an ordinary Egyptian searching for a job, only to be uncontrollably flung through time! Ibn Shalabi, armed with his briefcase and Islamic-calendar watch, bounces between the Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk eras, even making detours to the 1990s. He finds himself caught in a rebellion in the 1300s, forced to play a dangerous game as a double agent between rebels and the ruling dynasty.

About the author

K
Khairy Shalaby

Khairy Shalaby (1938–2011) was an Egyptian novelist, short-story writer and critic best known for chronicling the everyday life of Cairo's streets and rural Egypt. Over a career of roughly 70 books, including some twenty novels, he became one of the leading voices of Egypt's 1960s generation of writers, mixing colloquial and classical Arabic and blending local history with the daily struggles of ordinary people. His novel وكالة عطية (published in English as The Lodging House) won the Naguib Mahf...

Characters

Ibn ShalabiProtagonist
MaqriziSupporting
JawharCameo
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