حديث الصباح والمساء

Morning and Evening Talk- Morning and Evening Talk is a historical epic that revolves around three Cairene families, with their branches and characters. It tells the story of five generations belonging to these families from the timeNapoleon conquered Egypt until the 1980s. Its chapters do not follow a specific time line. Each chapter tells the life of a member of the three families, drawing a full portrait throughout for the Cairene society and its transformations over two centuries from multipleperspectives belonging to different social classes and times. The novel was published in 1987 and was considered by some to be Naguib Mahfouz''s most astonishing novel in terms of structure andtechnique.