Diary of a Country Prosecutor by Tawfik Al-Hakim

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 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.

Tawfiq al-Hakimis one of the major pioneer figures in modern Arabic literature.Born in Alexandria in 1898 to an Egyptianfather and Turkish mother, he studied law in Paris, then worked as a publicprosecutor in a provincial Egyptian town. He became the Arab world's leadingdramatist, as well as a major short-story writer and a man of letters, notablypublishing many articles against Nazism andFascism during WWII.He died in 1987.
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