Zat

"Zat", the central character of the novelist Sonallah Ibrahim, emerged from the hustle and bustle of life to inspire his imagination and nourish his thoughts with a thousand images and pictures... It is from reality... but it flows through the novel's events... so the reality of its presence has a thousand meanings... "Dhat" is the symbol through which Sonallah Ibrahim tried to depict the Egyptian society, which is teeming with values and beliefs that control its thoughts and lives... a society whose citizens are burdened by the burdens of economic, social and political conditions, and he presents the facts of these circumstances taken from Egyptian newspapers, both government and opposition, to reflect the general media atmosphere that surrounded the destinies of his characters and affected them... In "Dhat", imagination and reality intertwine... symbol and truth to embody human dimensions expressed by Sonallah Ibrahim in a style that brings "Dhat" closer to every self... it is the truth hidden behind the self