Waiting for What Does Not Wait

About this book

Between the silent walls of Qasr Al-Aini, and where the smell of death intermingles with the panting breaths of life, the tales no one dares tell are born. "Waiting for What Does Not Wait" is no mere short-story collection, but an exploratory journey into the labyrinths of the human psyche, led by a doctor who did not content himself with healing bodies, but dove into the depths of Egyptian souls laden with worries and secrets. Here, you will find yourself before a mirror reflecting a reality swinging between calamity and black comedy. You will walk in "mazes" with no exit, face a "torment" unique in kind whose cause you cannot grasp, and chase "a great secret" extending from the peaks of Tibet to NASA's laboratories. Have you ever asked yourself what happens in that decisive moment between life and death? Or how a "picture" can become an eternal shackle with no escape? From the spontaneous dialogues of "Halembouha" carrying in their folds the wisdom of existence, to the steadfast screams of "Jabalia" under the rubble, and from the labyrinths of politics and monopoly of interests to tales of mysterious suicide.