{"product_id":"diary-of-a-country-prosecutor-9780863569814","title":"Diary of a Country Prosecutor","description":"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?\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiary of a Country Prosecutor\u003c\/i\u003e is an Egyptian comedy of errors. Partly autobiographical, it is written as the 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAl-Hakim, Tawfik:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eTawfiq al-Hakim\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis one of the major pioneer figures in modern Arabic literature. Born in Alexandria in 1898 to an Egyptian\u003cbr\u003efather and Turkish mother, he studied law in Paris, then worked as a public\u003cbr\u003eprosecutor in a provincial Egyptian town. He became the Arab world's leading\u003cbr\u003edramatist, as well as a major short-story writer and a man of letters, notably publishing many articles against Nazism and\u003cbr\u003eFascism during WWII. He died in 1987. ","brand":"Saqi Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509266878738,"sku":"9780863569814","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a6dccd41-d8bc-47ca-8302-afb1a5e8a0be.jpg?v=1753183890","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/diary-of-a-country-prosecutor-9780863569814","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}