Private libraries: Paradise of Houses

Nine years ago, Hani Mahmoud owned a beautiful dream that the walls of his room have witnessed. One day he wrote on the wall, “I will have a library here”, and indeed the young man was able to fulfill his dream, not only that;Indeed, this library became larger than the area of a wall, and penetrated a lot because he had over a thousand books, as well as Ahmed Ayed, Hassan Hafez and Hala El -Sherbiny, so their libraries were raised until it became a special scientist himself, as if it were the paradise that the Argentine writer Jorge Borges said.

At the beginning of the university stage, Hani Mahmoud began to form his personal library, then he was the taste of reading for the first time. Where he got to know Egypt's public library, which has become an authentic source of further, and from time to time he was able to buy books, and the dream of owning his own library inside him, especially with his reading of the biographical books, in which the writers tell about their private libraries, and indeed his father made the library on His own expense, and he pointed to one of the carpenters by making it, but it was of great size, which surprised Hani.

So he donated a portion of the library for the mosque adjacent to them, “I took two meters, and the rest of his performance was for the mosque.” Hani did not know that his love love would be much greater than the two meters.Several "from book showrooms, pavement and books offered for sale online and from the wall of Sayyida Zainab."

Unlike Hani, the beginnings of the love of reading were different for Ahmed, Hassan and Hala, as they were read by reading at a young age, and at the hands of their families, and Ahmed made his first library during the preparatory stage, “I am thinking of two cartons of Arial and closed with clothes and clothes, this is the first library we work.”

As for Hassan, he started to love reading at the age of four years, he went with his mother to buy breakfast, and stop at the newspaper seller at the time, it is true that his mind could not restore the event, but his family is repeated for him that story sometimes.Adolescence was reading the impossible man and the future file. ”His readings differed after that;Where he got to know a book such as Youssef El Sebaei, Tawfiq Al -Hakim, Youssef Idris and Najeeb Mahfouz.

As for Hala, her father raised her to love the books, “Our return was that the village was the most important need in our lives.”In children's magazines, "Mickey and the Little Arabic and the Family Library".

Initially, Hala was reading the books in her father's huge library, but after that, specifically at the university stage, her library began to be created with her book, who loves the books as well, as a distinct relationship between them was formed;They organized a reading plan together, and on the basis of which they buy the books they need, and when one of them is affected by the second, the second purchase is easy to purchase.

The seduction of reading among the four young men did not end at that point, as their libraries expanded their own taste gradually, after years of reading, Hani realized that he loves the books of Arab heritage, and Hassan knew that he cares about philosophy, history and sociology more, while Ahmed does not concentrate his readings in a specific field, Where it varies from physics and chemistry to philosophy, mysticism, heritage, modern and classic literature, a halo that is attracted towards literature and translations differs, especially the human epic works that transmit it to another world, while the four believe in not allocating in reading.

The library for the four young people was growing with time, the Hani Library did not remain the same, as the rest of the room occupied “I hoped very much, and many books remained in cartons”, while the Ahmed Library became an entire floor, while he lives with his wife and children on another floor Also, the Hassan Library settled in the salon of the house, which began to make his library in 2004, “In the first it was a comodino wood and took part of the salon, with time the salon and the one who did not sofa disappeared in the salon, and the remainder was the library”, but the Hala Library expanded Its area in all possible places in the house, there is a full wall that is singled out for books, and there is no vacuum in the house except that it has been filled with books "The Choufra has books, the grade and the niche", as well A thousand books ».

Ahmed, Hani and Hassan were also criticized by the family because of the large size of their libraries, who received similar comments to "Hassan", who was told "Save your money and Hat Arab", and "Ahmed" was said, "Your children are first with money," and Hani received the same comments, but they are aware of Good the size of the wealth they possess, they have books of more than a hundred years and more, many of which are followed by gifting from its authors, “When Mama says your children are my first empty, he replied to them and said that the books were inherited his children.” My footnotes add within each book that he reads, "Books began to read my nation, and save it when, and his village, where", and his style follows the approach of the old manuscripts, "This adds a value to the book after a time", but on the contrary, Hala was not subjected to criticism from the family, and she says it is laughing. " Praise be to God Mama coexist with this topic.

And for their greatest libraries, they give them special importance, they must be cleaned first -hand, and no one is allowed to take care of them except under their own supervision as in a good case.Rearranging books in a new way, for two reasons, as Hani states;The first is that it is a renewal of the shape of books in front of his eyes, and so that he can know the sum of what he has, "so I can see what, or any bis, and I can dispense with it, or I have, so I will buy it again."

Ahmed also arranges his library whenever he feels crowding, sometimes he abandons some books and gives them to his friends, and loves to clean them himself weekly, while halo has a packaging device;Whenever I felt that the books are close to the disintegration, they protected them, "and we added the library along."

None of them imagined the sale of his library at all, even in the darkest circumstances, but there are some times that Ahmed does not like. Once he needed a large cash amount, then think about selling part of his library, and he pointed out a friend who works in selling books «and despite this he refusedQuite my decision and suffocate with me, ”

Ahmed also does not like to remember the time that two cartoons were lost from his books.The entrance to the architecture, and I was descending the morning school I was taking them. ”

Hani also went through the same difficult experience in selling the library; One day, one day to think about this, "the position of my tiredness was very psychological", but at the last minute, it retreated from the sale, "I am not able to sell, the library increases a discussion", but there are some cases in which the number of books decreases for Hani, when he is guided by a friend of his book Repeated to him, or sells it, and the third case when he feels that there are books that he has exceeded knowledge, and that it was valid in a period only "her hour by deciding to sell them, and buy second books in their place", which is the same reason that Hassan dispenses with the books he has "in a period of disposal From the chains of the impossible man and metaphysics, I felt that I entered in a second age and exceeded this.

These libraries are the safe haven of the four, as the relationship between Hani and his library is a mutual love, “I am the library’s work, my language, ideas, and feelings of its result.” For ten years, Hani started putting the seeds of his library that grew up day after day, where he sees it as a huge tree that is shaded,This strong relationship with Hassan, so he never imagines the absence of his library "is a part of me", as well as the feeling of Hala, as it feels that the library is its sympathy for all bad events in life, and you find nothing else that can be made more than books.