harvest

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The Harvest by Youssef Zeidan... Like a lake whose surface is calm but whose depths are turbulent and ablaze, this novel delves into the events of the two years preceding the eruption of the Arab Spring revolutions, which devastated several countries, leaving them like a harvest. When Bahir, a young Egyptian Baha'i from a middle-class family, meets Yara, a Lebanese girl of Druze origin, on the streets of Alexandria, he falls in love with her. He is gripped by anxiety about the possibility of her family rejecting him due to the disparity in their social and economic status. His worries intensify when his close friend Anu, obsessed with the Anunnaki doctrine that explains the origin of civilizations and the mysteries of human history, appears after Yara becomes attracted to him and begins to fall in love with him. While Bahir tries to save his love from collapse, the Church of the Two Saints is bombed on New Year's Eve, shattering the lives of all three protagonists. “The Harvest” is a novel that blends romance and history smoothly, while simultaneously posing its philosophical questions – a distinctive feature of Youssef Zeidan’s novels – to make us reconsider the meaning of human existence, the role of fate in human life, and the striking contradiction between human brutality and spirituality.