The National · 16 Oct 2026
Judge by day, novelist by night: How Ashraf Elashmawy found compassion through fiction
One of the stranger cases Ashraf Elashmawy investigated during his legal career involved a missing bird. It was 1990, and the young Egyptian prosecutor was assigned a case involving a peacock stolen from Cairo Zoo. “The bird was actually taken home by the zoo guard, slaughtered by his wife and serve
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