Summary Of Ibrahim Abdel Meguid's Birds Of Amber?

These were not normal phone calls of a government that was conducting professional investigations as normal safety procedures for the sake of the country's security. It was a government that was out for blood, terrorising those people with vindictive spite and hatred. This city's main trait, tolerance, has long disappeared and the Jews are no longer welcome in it. In birds of Amber, The police's harassment of Nawal is similar to Acimen's family. "ان الاختبار الذي اجريناه لك كن باوامر من جهة امنية الغرض منه و ضعك علي حافة السكين" (عبد المجيد 453) Ibrahim Abdel Meguid's narrative parallels that of Andre Acimen. No-one was exempted from the harassment of the police. Everyone lived in terror of crimes they knew nothing about and unjust accusation. The country was in utter turmoil.
Likewise, in Birds of Amber, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid weaves his story through the
He speaks impeccable French. And you should see his office, sumptuous. Not bad for an Arab who is scarcely thirty years old. If he represents the new order here, well, chapeau to the new Egypt. (Aciman 69)
These people wanted to live in the country, they welcomed the improvement in status the Egyptians are starting to gain even after their assets were nationalized "Why can't we live here even as paupers?" (Aciman 181) says the saint when the government expels them. They have been used to the concept of coexisting; it was no new notion to them. However, a lot of Egyptians discarded the concept altogether.
In Birds of Amber, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid reveals the gradual deterioration in the spirit of the Egyptians post the arabisation of the country. He also shows the filth and decay that accumulates on the buildings and the drastic transformation of Alexandria, nicknamed Madinat Al-Rab, City of God. These signs of deterioration are prominent when Arabi ventures into Jews Alley