رواية واحة الغروب

About رواية واحة الغروب

This application is a novel whose events take place at the end of the nineteenth century with the beginning of the British occupation of Egypt. The hero of the novel is the Egyptian police officer Mahmoud Abdel Zaher, who is sent to the Siwa Oasis as punishment after the authorities suspected him of sympathy with the revolutionary ideas of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and the leader Ahmed Orabi. The officer brings with him his Irish wife, Catherine, who is passionate about antiquities and is searching for the tomb of Alexander the Great, to immerse them in a new, very rich world that mixes the past and the present, and provides an experience of the relationship between the East and the West on the human and cultural levels.