In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of home came into focus as a place of warmth and comfort, associated with interior spaces and feminine touches.
In "e;The Virgin of Denshaway,"e; the reader finds himself before a novel that draws its inspiration from a real-life tragedy that shook the Egyptian psyche: the Denshaway Incident of 1906, the spark of which ignited the popular revolution of 1919.
In the midst of profound political changes in late seventh-century Egypt, after the end of Roman hegemony and during Islamic rule, a bishop named John from the city of Nikiu sat down to pen a chronicle.
"e;A Gift to the Sons of the Age on the History of the Kings of Egypt"e; is a fascinating historical encyclopedia that smoothly narrates the various stages Egypt went through, from the dawn of its ancient Pharaonic civilization to the rise of the Alawite dynasty led by Muhammad Ali Pasha the Great.
