I previously praised his second novel, "Toya," and carefully read his most recent novel, "The Barman," and when I continued reading it, it represented for me an intense embodiment of the flow of the vibrant journey of life in the ancient bar. To end up in the venerable court building, it is a novel of a place par excellence, and at the same time very attractive. The author masters the ability to provoke suspense and excitement in a remarkable way. D. Salah Fadl Al-Ashmawy was given the ability to skillfully transform the written text into a cinematic scene, so the reader looks at it as if he were watching it on the screen, and this ability nominates Ashraf Al-Ashmawy for cinematic writing par excellence. The novel "The Barman" is a beautiful and enjoyable literary text, and it is certainly a broad and important step in Ashraf El-Ashmawy's creative journey. Alaa Al-Aswany embodies this compelling novel between the corruption of the shepherd and the lust of the flock, ideological repression and the maze of aborted love, when awareness and conscience are usurped and the guarded Egypt becomes plundered, collapsing stripped of its values ¿¿under the weight of the creative pen of the writer and judge Ashraf Al-Ashmawy in his latest masterpiece, Al-Barman, which embodies the novelist at his most beautiful. Philosophy in its deepest form. Salma Qasim Gouda