The central character never allows Amina to visit anyone but her mother, though he gradually releases his grip on the sisters, Aisha and Khadija.
Yasin, the only son from the central characters's first marriage, seems aloof to the nationalistic Fahmy, who protests his country's occupation, and Kamal, who accepts it, while rejecting the * religion of his youth to become a writer. The central character never allows Amina to visit anyone but her mother, though he gradually releases his grip on the sisters, Aisha and Khadija. He is forced to watch as his grandchildren become communists and Islamic fundamentalists by the final novel, Sugar Street. FTP, name this set of novels focusing on Al-Sayyid Ahmad, taking place in an African capital, by Naguib Mahfouz.
Yasin, the only son from the central characters's first marriage, seems aloof to the nationalistic Fahmy, who protests his country's occupation, and Kamal, who accepts it, while rejecting the * religion of his youth to become a writer.
The Cairo Trilogy or Al Thulathiyya ( prompt on Palace Walk (al-Qasrayn) before the asterisk)