Essays on Harsh Reality

Kamal Hussein’s Thartharah fawqa al-Nil (Adrift on the Nile, 1971) is the film adaptation of the 1966 novel by Naguib Mahfouz. The film was released in 1971, four years after the Six-day War and a year after the death of Gamel Abdel Nasser, the second president of Egypt and the man behind the Revolution of 1952. The movie stars some of the most iconic actors of the time including Emad Hamdy, Ahmed Ramz and Adel Adham. The film focusses primarily on the protagonist Anis, a civil servant, and his experiences with a group of men who have created ...

The “Lament for a son” is a book by the well-known scholar Nicholas Wolterstorff, where he has tried to express his deep grief about losing his son. Wolterstorff lost his 25-year-old son Eric in a mountain climbing accident. He found joy in the death of his son by considering death as an inevitable reality of life. Though the topic and subject of the book are highly sensitive and personal but according to Wolterstorff, he believed that after publishing the book others who have been through the same irreplaceable pain would be able to relate to it. The paper highlights ...

Natural resources are getting finished at a rate faster than nature can restore, and still we continue to live as if these resources were limitless. The human race is faced with a great risk of extinction, and no amount of faith or willpower can save us from the extinction that threatens our existence. Natural resources such as oil have continued to reduce over the years and have led to the loss of certain species on earth such as dinosaurs, and there are numerous concerns that mankind will face the same fate in the future (Drake). The human race is ...