Books like حضرة المحترم by نجيب محفوظ

Phileas Fogg wagers he can circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, a daring quest that unfolds into a globe‑spanning adventure.

Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is a 14th‑century collection of 100 Italian tales told by ten young people who flee the plague‑ravaged Florence to a villa in Fiesole, each day presenting stories framed by a rule and a closing canzone.

A poor Cairo father represents God and his sons, Jesus, Mohammed and other profits (from Christian Science Monitor 9/06/2006)

A portrait of everyday life in a crowded Baghdad apartment complex, where residents balance love, survival and hope amid bombings, sanctions, and social pressure.

Palace Walk (Arabic: بين القصرين, romanized: Bayn al-Quṣrayn, lit. 'Between Two Palaces') is a novel by Nobel Prize winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, and the first installment of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. Originally published in 1956 with the title Bayn al-qasrayn, the book was then translated into English by William M. Hutchins and Olive Kenny, and then published by Doubleday (publisher) in 1990. The book's Arabic title translates into 'between two palaces'. The setting of the novel is Cairo around the time period of World War I. It begins in 1917, during World War I, and ends in 1919, the year of the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. The novel is written in a social realist style and reflects the social and political setting of Egypt in during 1917 to 1919. ---------- Contained in: [The Cairo trilogy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599697W)

Cuatro hombres recalados en la pensión Miramar desterrados por una realidad social que los ha convertido en exiliados en su propio país. La rivalidad por conseguir los favores de Zohra Salama, una joven entre cándida y sugerente, crea una atmósfera de tensión enfermiza, donde la frustración y el sentimiento de fracaso afloran hasta desnudar el interior herido de cada uno.

In 1991 Baghdad, two teenage girls find hope and friendship while hiding in an air‑raid shelter during the first Gulf War, dreaming of a world untouched by conflict.