Published on
December 15, 2009 in
1967, Books, Egypt, History, Israel, POWs, People and Testimonies.
Tags: 1967, Atlit, Books, Egypt, Fouad Hegazi, Fouad Hegazy, POWs, Six-days-war, testimonies.
Egyptian writer Fouad Hegazy is known to be the first one to write about his experience as an Egyptian POW in Atlit prison. His book “The POWs build barricades” was from first novels to speak about that sad and terrible experience. Mr. Hegazy had a political activity before the six days war and he is considered from the most active writers and novelists from outside
The POWs build barricades
Cairo and Alexandria. He is originally from Mansoura and God knows that this man is behind the reason of having this website, he was the one who introduced me through his interview with Mona El-Shazely two years as far as I remember to the forgotten suffering of our POWs.His description to how our Egyptian POWs died while being transferred by train to Atlit reminded me with Schindler’s list film train scene.
Recently this year Dar-Shorouk published a new edition from his novel “The POWs build barricades” which was first published in Cairo in 1976. He had written this novel and finished in 1968 right after his return from Atlit. Read more... (304 words, 1 image, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)
Published on
October 3, 2009 in
Books, Egypt, History, Israel, Media, POWs, People, Testimonies and War-Crimes.
Tags: 1967, Books, Egypt, History, Israel, Media, Mohamed Hussein Yunis, Sinai, Six-days-war.
POW No.36715 is Mohamed Hussein Yunis who was captured by the IDF during the six days war 1967 and he has published a new edition from his memories about this tough experience. The book is called “Steps on jailed land” and it was published by “Dar Al-Shorouk” in Cairo in 2008 after its first print in 1982. The memories are like a novel , conversations between a POW who just had returned back home and his psychiatrist
Yunis describes the feelings of humiliation the Egyptian soldiers and officers whether in the six days war itself or their capture in Atlit prison. He describes in details both the physical and psychological warfare the Israeli army practiced against the Egyptian POWs.
According to critics the book is a documentary written by the feelings of a poet and the spirit of artist , an artist with No.36715.
Unfortunately the book is currently available in Arabic and in Egypt only for the time being , you can find it in book stores in Egypt especially Al-Shorouk Bookstores
For all those who are skeptical about our victory please read this wonderful study by the American Major J.C. Moulton of United States Air Force from the Marine Corps University Command and Staff College published in year 1997
The 1973 October War: The Egyptian Perspective
Just read it carefully it is a wonder excellent analysis to the war of 1973 based upon the Egyptian perspective , again the one who presented this research is an American Major in the United States Air Forces
Please read it
And if you finish reading and you still have nothing to do , I will recommend that you read another study also from the Marine Corps University Command and Staff College ,this time the study was made by Major Ibrahim Al-Jowder from the Bahrain Armed Forces in year 1997
The 1973 October War : The Operational level
And more and more reading will not harm you at all , so I advice to buy these books and read it carefully then may be you will have a better idea of who really won the war back then Read more... (332 words, 3 images, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)
Published on
September 19, 2007 in
Books, Lectures and News.
Tags: 1956, 1967-Cairo, Books, Egyptian-POWs, events, lecture, Media, Osama-El-Sadek, veterans.
Next Thursday the 20th of September in Cairo ,there will be very important lecture and a book discussion related to the case of the Egyptian POWs
The book is “The People and the war” which was written by 1967 and 1973
veteran Colonel Osama El-Sadek whose testimony about what had happened from crimes against the Egyptian army by the IDF is considered one of the most important testimonies from what it contained from details and incidents
Here are the details of the lecture from time and place :
- Start Time:Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 8:30pm
- End Time:Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 11:00pm
- Location:Cairo Library, next to the Safir Hotel
- Street:Hassan Sabry, Zamalek
- City/Town:Cairo, Egypt
Col. Osama testimony is available in the website here whether in the Egyptian Testimonies section or in the video section
a jailed land
