SULFUR EDITIONS PRESENTS: A LITERARY LANDMARK
“The written word ceases to be a medium and becomes a bridge.”
THE PASSERBY by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Translated by Somaya Abdul Wahhab
artworks by Ghadah Kamal Ahmed
We are profoundly honored to announce the global release of THE PASSERBY, the latest masterpiece by the legendary Egyptian novelist and philosopher of the threshold, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid.
Winner of the Nile Award, the Naguib Mahfouz Medal, and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Abdel Meguid returns with a narrative that recalibrates the national and global consciousness.
In THE PASSERBY, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid archives an “Ontological Seismic Event.” The psychological suffering explored in this text is the desolate space between the “Name” the world imposes and the “Soul” that pulses within.
When “Lamyaa” becomes a hollow linguistic mask and the body feels like an occupied territory, a “Metaphysical Exile” begins. Every reflection in the mirror becomes a confrontation with a stranger; every utterance of the birth name is a strike against the heart of truth.
Abdel Meguid masterfully uses the “husky voice” as a visceral excess of the self that societal structures cannot contain. It is the sound of the persona “cracking” under the weight of an imposed identity.
This edition is a true collector’s item and a global literary event, featuring:
Masterful Translation: Rendered into English with exquisite precision by Somaya Abdul Wahhab.
Interspersed with the visceral, surrealist artworks of Ghadah Kamal, providing an intersemiotic dimension that mirrors the protagonist’s internal fragmentation and eventual synthesis.
NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE
Experience the work of one of the Arab world’s most influential living writers. THE PASSERBY is now available across all major global bookstores and digital platforms.
Some of the Global Retailers and bookstores :
Amazon USA
Barnes & Noble bookstores :
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Amazon UK
Black Wells stores
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patogupirkti/ Italy
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Germany Hugendubel
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Amazon Canada
Amazon Germany
Saxo Denmark
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Amazon France
Amazon India
bookshop /globally
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Amazon Netherlands
Morawa
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Amazon Belgium
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Amazon Brazil
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Everand
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Vivlio
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Links to specific sales outlets will be published next week
Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Born in Alexandria, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, Alexandria University. He has lived in Cairo since 1975. He wrote and published his short stories in prominent Arab literary magazines such as Al-Hilal, Al-Majalla, Al-Tali‘a, Al-Adab, Ibdaa, and Al-Karmel, among others. He has also written and published articles in major Egyptian and Arab newspapers and continues to do so. He has received important Egyptian and Arab awards, and some of his works have been translated into foreign languages.
He has published nineteen novels, seven short story collections, and several other books, as follows:
First: Novels
1. In the Summer of ’67
2. Night of Love and Blood
3. Distances – translated into English
4. The Hunter and the Doves – adapted into a film titled The Dove Hunter, starring Ashraf Abdel Baky
5. The Jasmine House – translated into French, Italian, and English
6. The Other Town – translated into French, English, and German
7. Jellyfish – adapted into a television series starring Athar El-Hakim and Mahmoud Kabil
8. No One Sleeps in Alexandria – adapted into a television series starring Maged El-Masry, Madeleine Tabar, and Soheir El-Morshedy; translated into French, English, and Spanish
9. Amber Birds – translated into English
10. Virgo Tower
11. Thresholds of Joy – translated into French and Greek
12. Castle Honey
13. Every Week Has a Friday – translated into German
14. Alexandria in a Cloud – translated into English; thus the entire Alexandria Trilogy has been translated into English
15. Here Is Cairo
16. Adagio – translated into English and French
17. Cats of the Past Year
18. Before I Forget That I Was Here
19. The Cyclops
20. The Trilogy of Escaping Memory
21. Cairo of Today, Lost
22. 32 December
The Alexandria Trilogy consists of:
No One Sleeps in Alexandria – Amber Birds – Alexandria in a Cloud
Second: Short Story Collections
1. Small Scenes Around a Big Wall
2. The Tree and the Birds
3. Closing the Windows
4. Spaces (Selected Stories)
5. Old Ships
6. Angela’s Night
(All of the above are now collected in one volume titled Trees of Mirage)
7. Stories of the Iftar Hour
Third: Other Books
1. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave – translated from English
2. 24 Hours Before the War – a play
3. Where Do the Ocean Birds Go? – travel literature
4. Beyond Ruin – essays on religion, the Other, identity, renaissance, and heritage
5. Saturday Passed and Sunday Passed – essays
6. Days of Tahrir – memoir of the January Revolution
7. Who Creates Crises in Egypt? – essays
8. Beyond Writing – My Experience in Creativity
9. The Boy Who Loved the Rain – essays
10. Letters from Egypt – translation of Lucy Duff Gordon
Awards
1. First Prize in Short Story – Alexandria Story Club (1969)
2. Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for The Other Town – The American University in Cairo (1996)
3. State Award for Excellence in Literature (2004)
4. State Merit Award in Literature (2008)
5. Sawiris Prize for Best Senior Novelist (2011) for Every Week Has a Friday
6. Katara Prize (2015) for Adagio
7. Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature (2016) for Beyond Writing – My Experience in Creativity
8. Nile Award in Literature (2022)
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