A Rookie Journalist's Journey

About this book

Between the clamor of printing presses and the calm of dim offices, truth is born from the womb of adventure. 'Mohamed Mostafa Al-Gamal' does not merely write a novel but opens the cell of secrets long locked tight. The journey begins at 2:37 past midnight, atop the stairs of the journalists' syndicate, where our hero 'Al-Gamal' stands gripping a paper unlike any other: it is a fuse that could set press empires ablaze or bury its owner in the graveyard of oblivion. The novel takes us on a deep emotional journey, beginning in a small rural village where 'Al-Gamal' was a child awaiting the newspaper seller to read headlines by moonlight, and arriving at the halls of the Faculty of Media and the battles of 'the press scoop.' We accompany him as he takes his first steps between the idealism of principles and the realism of interests, and between 'Mariam,' who sees media as a mirror reflecting reality, and his own view of it as a tool for making change and exposing the hidden. From the case of the physics teacher who fell from his school's balcony under mysterious circumstances, to documenting the tragedy.