EgypToz: An Egyptian Film

Saturday, December 16, 2006

An Egyptian Film

Dawlat woke up at 8:00…Dawlat has to be in the college at 8:15…there is no time to make breakfast…Dawlat gave her son money to buy biscuits when he is in school…in the elevator Dawlat met her neighbor but they didn’t exchange words…in her Fiat 128 car Dawlat ate chips and threw the bag from the window…the chips bag fell in the middle of the street…the street cleaner moved the chips bag with the broom to the traffic lamp…her son bought a kidney sandwich…the street cleaner stood under the traffic lamp waiting for tips…the black Mercedes car stopped...her son did not go to school…someone threw 10 pounds from an almost closed black window…Dawlat came late to the lesson after spending half an hour searching for a parking place…her husband woke up at 10:00… her son then finished the cigarette and threw it…the street cleaner picked up the 10 pounds from the ground…Dawlat wrote a question on the board and asked her students to answer it…as usual her husband is alone in the house…her son was playing football with his friends in the street…her husband was full of sweat after being squeezed for an hour in the public bus…the question is : how can we prevent pollution in Cairo?…the hotel manager told her husband to prepare the food quickly for the foreigners…her son saw the black Mercedes car…Dawlat went to the college cafeteria to drink coffee and read the newspapers…her husband had no time to wash the salad and brought the food to the foreigners…her son played with the Mercedes sign and broke it… Dawlat collected the written answers from the students…Dawlat was not in good mood to give a lesson today...she smiled to the husband…the husband smiled back…her son scratched the black Mercedes car with the key…the owner of the black Mercedes saw her son…her son ran from him…the owner of the black Mercedes saw her son lying in the middle of the street crying…after the work the husband went with her to their room in the hotel…on her way home Dawlat gave the street cleaner the written answers…people searched for the car that hit him…the neighbor saw people carrying her son to the hospital…people asked the neighbor if he could call Dawlat…the neighbor did not know the number…the street cleaner was angry because Dawlat did not give him money…Dawlat did not find her son in the house… Dawlat did not find her neighbor…Dawlat went to the school but it was closed…her husband did not find anyone in the house…he was tired so he slept…the foreigners had to be carried to the hospital…the neighbor went to the house and told her husband about his son…her husband told Dawlat that he is going to the hospital…her husband found his son in the section for food poisoning…the foreigners were also in the same room…the husband saw her…Dawlat ran to her son crying…the foreigners told the doctor that the husband made the food…the doctor told her that she has aids…she told Dawlat that she slept with her husband.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

An intermingling twisting mind-shattering fabulous drama that kept me intrigued until the final period. describes the egyptian drama .. I find it very intriguing.. just a little bit dis-associative .. I was lost like three times in the whole scheme that I have to scroll up for re-read

شغف said...

it s an indian film ya wallad

WS said...

exactly

Anonymous said...

very nice, I couldn't go move, the kettle was boiling, but I had to finish the story!

نهضة مصر

WS said...

This is not a story,this is not a film,this is the reality we want to live in.

Anonymous said...

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