Ahmed Magdy Abd Al-Rasoul

The novel tells the story of an Egyptian woman of Armenian origins, her own personal history and the history that preceded her. It depicts the tragedy of the Armenians and the massacres they have suffered at the hands of the Ottoman authorities. By tracing the life of this woman, the novel takes a look at the beginnings of those massacres in 1894, passing by the escalating violence against the Armenians in Turkey in 1915 as well as their mass displacement and forced migration. We follow the woman’s journey until she arrives in the Levant with her family. The novel then shows how she ends up immigrating to Egypt and follows the story of her integration within the Armenian community all the way to the Arab Spring.