More than 26 books, participated by Ain Shams University, students and professors ... at the Cairo International Book Fair 2019 such as books, stories, novels and translations in various fields and from many ancient and modern foreign cultures. Through these books, translations of international writers emerged, and others represented creations that shone in the sky of the university from their students and professors, and a third expressed scientific and cultural ideas and visions that explored the depths of societies, cultures and sciences.

Sir James Fraser and the Literary Fiction: Essays on Effect and Affect

Dr. Ahmad Siddik Al-Wahi, Assistant Professor at the English Language Department at Al-Alsun University, Ain Shams University, has published his latest translations on the English language. This edition aims to shed light on the influence of James Fraser, through his famous book "The Golden Branch", on Western literature and thought since the publication of his book for nearly a century until now. It also aims to show what James Fraser shared with his contemporaries, and how he benefited from the intellectual climate and trends in his era.

It took almost three years to prepare the book in its English version. It contains fourteen articles, each of which deals with a different aspect of this effect and influence. These articles vary between literary criticism, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and mythology. These articles explore important topics and ideas in works by writers and thinkers the size of Elliot, Pound, Joyce, Lawrence, Conrad Yeats, Windham Lewis, Stevenson, Sigmund Freud and Ferdinand de Saussure. These articles also search for the roots from which Fraser drew his opinions and ideas, and the reactions that these opinions and ideas raised, ranging from support and rejection.

A Ladder Toward Heaven

Noha Shaker, assistant teacher at Alsun Ain Shams, Department of Islamic Eastern Languages, “Persian Language Division,” published a translated story from the Iranian entitled “A Ladder Toward Heaven” by Youssef Cogic, dealing with Turkmen culture, customs and traditions during the period of the Russian occupation of Iran, and the issue of sacred martyrdom for defense On behalf of the homeland, because of its great standing through the martyrdom of three generations, the last of whom was "Aydin" who was martyred to defend the homeland against the Russian Cossacks. The novel begins with the story of an eight-year-old boy called "Yashar" who lost his parents in his childhood, and he lives his older brother "Aydin" who spends the last days of his recruitment period in a country house with their aunt, who has no children.

Before closing the bag

Prof. Dr. Mona Ahmed Hamed, Professor of Persian Language at Faculty of Al-Alsun, has published a translation of an Iranian literature novel entitled "Before the bag is closed." The events of the novel revolve between a rebellion against the social reality that we do not accept and belonging to the country. Through two young women in the prime of life, one of them is indignant at her community with his social and appearance restrictions that do not express real values, she tries all the time to persuade her parents to travel abroad to continue her studies and to pursue a better world.

As for the other girl, she is linked to her small homeland, which is her family, drawn to her roots in the homeland and refuses to travel abroad and believes that her life is in her homeland and among her family; the novel establishes the idea of dialogue with the other and his vision through smooth social events and simple language.

On the margins of the main event, the novel discusses other social issues, including the separation of parents and its psychological impact on young people, the problems of the elderly sick with Alzheimer's and how children deal with their problems.

Sohrab's killer

Prof. Dr. Mona Ahmad Hamid, Professor of Persian Language at Faculty of Al-Alsun, published a translation of an Iranian novel called " Sohrab’s Killer", a philosophical novel in a highly specific local social dress. Through this narration, the author deals with the stories of the Iranian countryside with its various ethnic, religious and cultural components, summoning the Iranian legend (Rustam and Sohrab) in which the father killed his son leaving behind a question without an answer: Did he know him and killed him, or did he kill him without knowing him.

The protagonist of the novel, "Sohrab", falls in love with Mary, the most beautiful girl in the village. The novel also presents different images of a crushed woman between her different tools as a mother and wife and her endless sacrifices. The context in which events move is largely a philosophical mystic, and the novel is characterized by an accurate description of all the psychological and sensory details.

Religions in China ... Chinese beliefs and religions

Prof. Dr. Nasser Abdel-Al, Professor of Chinese Language and Vice-Dean of Faculty of Al-Alsun for Education and Student Affairs, participated in a translated book entitled "Religions in China" - Chinese Beliefs and Religions, a book that won an award for academic publishing in China.

Prof. Dr. Nasser Abdel-Al explained that religions are one of the most important components of Chinese society, as they also represent the basic content of traditional Chinese culture, which has continued for thousands of years until now and new developments have occurred, and that there is a rich and complex mix between religious belief and cultural spirit Chinese, and ethnic mix in Chinese society.

The history of religions in Chinese society is a typical history of Chinese culture represented by the history of "the great virtue that represents growth" and the history of "numerous intellectual schools competing", which clearly reflect and testify that Chinese culture is rooted from ancient times, broad, deep, and receptive to the other.

This book explains and explains the religious and belief perceptions of Chinese society from an implicit perspective of religious philosophy and cultural history, reveals the social, political, cultural and spiritual significance of religions, traces the history of the development of religious beliefs in Chinese society, stereotypical changes, and analyzes the characteristics of Chinese local religions and the process of globalizing religions in China.