Al-Shamsharji - Mahmoud Gamal

I am Shehata, the one with influence and the word heard in the Sublime Porte, who closed the great prison during the reign of Muhammad Ali, and I saw the ruler’s betrayal of the people, I saw countries being built and countries falling. I am al-Shamasherji, I am history, more important than sultans and kings, more important than al-Jabarti whose son I saw dying in front of me while I was laughing. Then he wrote in a clearer and larger handwriting: I lived to narrate, I lived to tell, I lived to die in the folds of history.