AUTHORS
Haitham Dabbour
Haitham Dabbour began his career as a journalist and
writer. He is the author of close to ten books of fiction,
satire, and poetry. He won the Ahmad Fouad Negm Award
for Egyptian Colloquial Poetry for his poetry collection
Eaten by Seven Lean Cows.
The movie Odd was inspired by his short story collection
The Horse’s Back, and Photocopy by his short story
collection A Thing from Fiction. His 2020 novel The Cross of
Moses has received praise from both critics and readers.
The Cross of Moses | Salib Moussa
On a freezing cold December night in 2011, amid
political and security turmoil in Egypt, Ahmed Bahy, a
photographer in his thirties, is forced into a helicopter
and taken to Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, where
he has enjoyed a long history with the Greek monks.
A document implicates him in the mysterious death of
a monk in the monastery a few hours earlier, forcing
him to flee and seek to establish his innocence. With
the help of the Bedouin Abi Omran and environmental
scientist Ruth, Bahy later discovers rare documents of
the monastery that hold grave secrets, and he risks all to
uncover the truth.
The novel is based on real events related to documents
and maps of the monastery’s archives, as well as the
demographics of Saint Catherine’s Monastery, and
the author brings everything together in his tale: the
historical, the geographic, the religious, the ethnic, and
the artistic.
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