The last days of the Pasha .. Novel relives our relationship to the West through the "diplomatic giraffe"

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Published by the Arab Science Publishers House, the novel "The Last Days of the Pasha" by the Egyptian writer Rasha Adly, the novel is in 296 pages of the medium pieces, a novel that draws from history through its hero very impressive Pasha.

The novel "The Last Days of the Pasha" comes from the dedication of Mohamed Ali Pasha Giraffe to the King of France, presenting a different picture of this person of the Pasha from the perspective of the action hero, the driving personality of the events, driven by his love for the Pasha and his admiration for him. So that the search becomes a kind of investigation and investigation that excludes all ready-made hypotheses to the point of questioning the "facts" fixed in the books, and demanding the extraction of the remains of the Pasha to determine the causes of his death.

The last days of the Pasha

The novel "The Last Days of the Pasha" recounts a series of attitudes that governed the relationship between the East and the West, which was revealed by Hassan al-Barbari, a former soldier in the Ansarish forces, who went to become the special guard of the French consul in Cairo. He accompanied the diplomatic giraffe on her journey to France This journey recognizes the barbarian to another world strange to him through his hesitation on the most famous French salons at the time "Madame Chantal Salon" and establish relations and friendships with the famous writers of France (Stendhal .. Victor Hugo .. Alexander Duma and others …) to surprise the blatant contradiction between Declared convictions and practices in practice. Attitudes are not only concerned with Orientalists who have always looked at this East from a transcendent angle, but not even the enlightened intellectuals of France.

"The last days of the Pasha" Another novel faithful to the method chosen by the writer Rasha Adly in a number of previous work. This approach is based on a journey back and forth between two historical periods, where historical events interact with events of the present to present a "fiction fiction" of history that may be an invitation to reconsider a group of Muslim women, as well as a fictitious construction of events of another time, .

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