Ahmed Kamel – författare

Endless hordes of palm trees roll horizontally, regularly and lightly, behind a tiny human body, heading towards the village of "Al-Ghazala" to destroy it completely. While the residents of the village and its people live the horror of the last moments, awaiting their inevitable fate drawn by someone seeking revenge, there are pasts that unfold, events that appear, and stories that are reproduced to tell the story of two imaginary villages. In a strange atmosphere, and the strangest relationships between the characters of his novel, "Ahmed Kamel" grapples with the idea of ​​human helplessness, and delves into the worlds of secret desires, which people do not dare to announce or reveal. "Mountain of Metaphors" is a novel that takes inspiration from the proverbs of villages in the Egyptian countryside, the beliefs of its people, and their fairy tales, to build its own myth.