- Shakīb al-Jābirī (1912 – 1996, Syria) – Wadāʿan yā Afamiya (‘Good-bye Afamia’, 1960), depicts the social tensions aroused by the arrival of a Belgian archaeological team in a Syrian rural community (reference). The novel was made into a tv-series in 1972 with the same title.
- Muḥammad Mansī Qandīl (1949-, Egypt) – Yawm Ghāʾim fī al-Bir al-Gharbī (2009, English trans. A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore, 2016). Set in the 20th century, the Englishman Howard Carter visits Egypt on an archaeological expedition, and meets ʿĀʾishah, a beautiful woman full of contradictions. He invites her to accompany him to the Valley of the Kings, where Carter made his famous discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922. The novel reflects on Carter’s search and the local Egyptian’s objection, shedding light on the archeological expedition and early Egyptology from an Egyptian point of view (reference) (also in Colonial rule of Northern Africa: 1882 British Occupation of Egypt).
Refrences:
In order of appearance
- EAL, p. 405
- Annie. 2018. “A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore, by Mohamed Mansi Qandil.” www.abookishtype.wordpress.com September 23, 2018 https://abookishtype.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/a-cloudy-day-on-the-western-shore-by-mohamed-al-mansi-qandil/ (last accessed January 3, 2021)