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Who shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was the role of the beautiful peasant girl Rim? Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems? Diary of a Country Prosecutor is an Egyptian comedy of errors. Partly autobiographical, it takes the form of a journal of a young public prosecutor posted to a village in rural Egypt. Imbued with the ideals of a European education, he encounters a world of poverty and backwardness where an imported legal system is both alien and incomprehensible.

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'A satirical tale of country life under a repressive and faraway Cairo legal system.' Literary Review 'Touching and yet savagely funny.' Bookseller Praise for the author: 'The model of a twentieth-century Arab public intellectual ... he led the literary renaissance that self-consciously sought to give shape to the social and political awakening following the 1919 Egyptian uprising against British rule.' Times Literary Supplement

'A satirical tale of country life under a repressive and faraway Cairo legal system.' Literary Review 'Touching and yet savagely funny.' Bookseller Praise for the author: 'The model of a twentieth-century Arab public intellectual ... he led the literary renaissance that self-consciously sought to give shape to the social and political awakening following the 1919 Egyptian uprising against British rule.' Times Literary Supplement

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Tawfik al-Hakim was born in Alexandria in 1898 and studied law in Paris. He worked as a public prosecutor in a provincial Egyptian town before becoming the Arab world's leading dramatist as well as a major short-story writer and man of letters. He died in 1987.

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