The trunk of the palm tree, to which his body was stretched, rose towards the sky.
A sinful person loaded with shame, does not seek salvation for himself or for others. He looks from his cross to a land he wished to see the footprints of his feet on, so his feet hung in the air, and above him was a sky in which he had no place, after he became cursed by the testimony of all, Muslims and Christians, Sunnis and Shiites, Romans and Copts. He lived his life dressed in doubt, and today he dies with one certainty, that life is futile and does not deserve to be lived, and man in this life is like a shadow, so is there any trace of imagination?
This novel is not just a text that tells about a critical period in the history of Egypt, marked by the national, sectarian, and ethnic conflict at the end of the Fatimid state, but rather a comprehensive human experience in the search for identity among the dozens of affiliations that divide it.
A new journey by writer Osama Abdel Raouf El Shazly on the concepts of identity, homeland, and belonging, and a new story from the pages of the past that casts a shadow over the present.
