In front of the throne

In this novel, unique in its structure and content, Naguib Mahfouz reformulates Egyptian history from a different point of view, as he brings together Egyptian rulers from the era of Mina, who unified the two countries, up to the era of Sadat, and conducts a long dialogue between them in the form of a trial that calls on each of them to stand before it. Mahfouz draws inspiration from the idea of ​...