![]() Fahmy is a serious and pious law student. Unbeknown to each other, Ahmad and Yasin enjoys the same debauchery. Sons Yasin, Fahmy, and Kamal eat breakfast with their father, and proudly follow him to work or school. A religious man, Ahmad depends on God's mercy. Outsiders see Ahmad as the life of any party, musical and generous. She alone knows of his other side: nightly rounds of drinking and sex. She prays constantly for her family's welfare. Pious wife Amina prides herself on being submissive and supportive. ![]() The first volume in Mahfouz Naguib's Cairo Trilogy, Palace Walk examines middle-class life just after World War I, following the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of the Abd al-Ahmad family during the revolutionary years 1917-19.Īhmad Abd al-Jawad is a domestic tyrant, demanding instant and absolute obedience to a household standard that few Muslims follow. ![]()
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