Tuesday 27/May/2025 – 04:23 PM
The narration division, headed by Dr. Atiyat Abu Al -Enein and under the patronage of Dr. Alaa Abdel Hadi, head of the General Union of the Federation of Egypt’s Books, organized a symposium to discuss the novel and Tottat Al -Nag by the journalist Ashraf Al -Tababi, at the headquarters of the Book Federation in Zamalek, on Thursday, May 29, at seven in the evening.
Next Thursday .. Discussing the novel and Tottat Al -Naja with the Books Union
The novel will be discussed by the critic Dr. Azza Badr, the critic Dr. Al -Sayed Najm, the writer and critic Amal Salem, and the narration division will refuse the poet and critic Saleh Sharaf Al -Din before the start of the symposium.
The writer Ashraf Al -Talbi says that the novel and Tawirat Al -Nag, published by the General Authority of Culture Palaces, belongs to the type of real social accounts, as it revolves around the personality of Hajjaj, who lives in a small nag in the depths of Upper Egypt, and the novel, through its chapters, monitors the suffering of the Naga residents in the face of the Corona virus, and its profound impact on the details of their daily lives.
The writer highlights how Hajjaj, like all the people of Nag, realizes that this land has a long and bitter history in resisting epidemics. Throughout the past decades, they lost an countless number of men and women due to the outbreak of cholera and plague, without finding a treatment that stops bleeding. Therefore, the people of Nags live in the shadow of the obsession of the disaster.
The events of the novel move between the Sayyida Zainab neighborhood in Cairo and the city of Esna in Luxor Governorate, to weave a very realistic humanitarian image of anxiety and resistance in the time of the pandemic.
It is noteworthy that Ashraf Al -Talabi works as a journalist in the Al -Maswar magazine issued by the Dar Al -Hilal Foundation, and his most prominent books are a story collection entitled Al -Hajar, published by Dar in addition to publishing and distribution, and the narration of Abi Sarwal, which was published by Dar Beit Al -Yasmine, and won the literary talent award awarded by the Supreme Council of Culture.
Also, in the past year, a book in the presence of the elders was published by the House of Publishing and Distribution, and in this year, he added to his literary balance a children’s story entitled The Fish Sakka, issued by the Voice of the Country Publishing House.
