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The job

From Republic Street, first Faisal

Between Sharif and Saudi Al-Sanadili Streets

Corona time, fireworks and firecrackers

and drugs

The job

The woman says: Zafar presented Al-Muhandis with a thousand workers, and what did he bring to Jab when the eye was higher than the eyebrow?

The ears of the working women are connected to the voice of Abu Zaidat, the gypsy woman, the daughter of the worker. Every woman dreams of giving birth to a son who graduates from the engineer’s zakhana until he becomes like the pasha, an engineer who digs for precious metals, who, with a gesture of his right hand, extracts what is in the depths of sand and mountains, and when he waves with his left hand, the western mainland becomes desert. The major drought and its workers are starving. .

Kaidham chooses the strongest women and sets a schedule for them to serve the tent of the Bashemhands throughout the week. Ten of them clean inside the spacious tent, beginning with the reception hall for the guests, which is surrounded by ten entrances distributed on both sides, and ending with the back and front of the tent and its sides.. Cleaning begins after the Bashemhands leave the door of his tent every morning in company His only son, Rami, to be taken by the driver to the urban school adjacent to the Badia.

Kaydahem Zeinhum, the butler of the tent, directed ten other women in the company of Radawi Owaisah, the courier of the Bashmuhandz office, to distribute them to the tents of the sheikhs of the Amirna tribes, his assistants, and the eyes of the people.

Radawi Awessa goes in the early morning hours to collect the daily salary of vegetables, fruits and birds that will be slaughtered to be served at the lunch and dinner table in the tent of Sayed Pasha Tamai, the excavation engineer, accompanied by ten other women who bear the salary on their heads.

Radawi returns before the call to prayer for the noon prayer, so every woman puts the good on her head to hand it over to the chief servant, who turns her gaze to exclude the bad and enters the healthy into the kitchen. Thirty women gather in the large kitchen, washing, cutting, slaughtering and straightening the meat. With the secrets of Hanim Aziz, the wife of the Bashemhands, who calms her terror and her intense fear of the Pasha, if the women do not improve their work and finish it before he returns, otherwise the gypsy woman will lose her job.

Asrar Hanim is given to every woman who favored her with some bread and a little vegetables, so they raise their voices to pray for her and leave the tent to be received by their daughters who carry the meals for them that will provide for their families and those of their sisters and fathers who return from the excavation interest with every sunset, and every girl dreams of her knight who resembles the Pasha Muhannads the excavation who Much good will be lavished on its working people from the gypsies of Amirna. .

Kaidahm hurries to catch up with the women, to assure them to inform their neighbors who have their turn tomorrow to serve the tent of the Bashemhands and the tents of the eyes of the tribes, and she repeats her well-known phrase to stop dreaming: If Zafar provided the Muhandaz with a thousand workers, and what brought him...the women and girls leave Kaidham to continue her will and return to their tents to meet them The intense crowds, screams and wailing, asking for help from the drowning torrents that swept the hills without prior warning.

All the attempts of the men fail, and the angry water flows to remove all the tents of the working people that embrace their women, men and elders, so no one escapes from drowning.

Kaidahm, the chief servant of the Bashemhands tent, begins a journey of searching for new workers, women and girls, who dream of their master, the Pasha, so that he may lavish a lot of good on her family of workers.

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A short story by: / Mahmoud Hassan Farghaly

Member of the Writers Union

Member of the Syndicate of Film Professions

mahmoudhassanfarghaly@yahoo.com

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