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Legend has it that al-Hakrub was originally an elderly woman given by God to an old man. When he died, the widow turned into a mountain without a soul, and the man himself became water and after a long time came down in the form of abundant streams to look for his wife. And the streams became the long Nile, complaining about their fate to the banks.
The action takes place in the city of Aswan, in the south of Egypt. The protagonist of the novel is arrested without any reason. The reader witnesses brutal scenes of prison torture in the harsh conditions of an Egyptian prison. The novel depicts the realities of the eighties - the last years of the era on the eve of the information revolution, with all the contradictions and failures of this period in the history of Egyptian society. The novel Al-Hakroub: A Personal File describes the circumstances that would later lead to the outbreak of the 2011 revolution in Egypt and create the reality in which Egypt is now.