Soleiman Fayyad and his novel "Asvât"

Soleiman Fayyad, is an Egyptian novelist, storywriter and linguist of Arabic who grew up in the last century. He is not well-known writer in our country. The writer who graduated from Al-Azhar University Faculty of Arabic Language, worked as a teacher in his country and in various Arabic countries. Besides his officer life, he published story magazines, wrote biographical narrative works in novelle style which tell the lifes of famous scientists and historic people in Arab-İslamic culture and attende took part in many television and radio programs. Asvât (Voices) is his first written and the most famous novelle. It was published in 70s and made great impact in both Arab and Western World and was translated to many languages. The topic of the novel was the conflict between the East and the West which was discussed by many Arab writers before. A true story taking place in a village in Nile delta is fictionalised. Undevelopment of Eygptian society, loss of moral values and problems emerging from conflict with West culture are described with witness of protagonists. The result is tradegy. Critism of present government was presented to readers indirectly because it was written after 67 Arab-Israel war.