Egyptian Chronicles: A diary of a Nurse in the country side

The famous Egyptian thinker and Novelist Tawfik El-Hakim wrote in the last century very famous successful critical novel called "The Diary of a country prosecutor " based upon his personal experience as a country side Prosecutor who originally came from the city to the country side to meet another world. It was a critical social comic novel that shows how influence the police officers and mayors in the country side .The Police Sheriff in the novel was so powerful and corrupted figure in the novel , you can not ignore him at all . Surprisingly after more than 70 years "Hakim worked as a Prosecutor in 1930" things did not change at all in the country side , the same corrupted characters are still there despite all the changes from the monarchy to republic , from socialism to open market system ,country side to be urbanized more and more yet the same old social diseases and problems are still there
The corrupted Sheriff is still there and even got more power and is feared from the people more than from 77 years ,and now it is only the sheriff to be honest it is the whole police force starting from the constables , after all in 1930 there was no fearful State Security in the scene .
I remember this novel when I saw on TV in the "90 minutes show" at "El-Mahawar" channel on Nile Sat a Nurse from the Monufia Governorate who is seeking protection from a Police officer , this is quick brief short summary but the incident goes as follows
A verbal argument happened between a Nurse in the nigh shift and a doctor , the Nurse was the right party in the fight , the doctor could not believe that a nurse was standing against her and thus she began to call her names and threaten her with her husband , what does her husband do for living ?? He works as a Police officer whose father and brother are also police officers too.The Nurse did what she had to do and complained by a memo to the higher authority whether it was the minister of health as the hospital they both work in follows the ministry and the manager of the hospital , accordingly an investigation was led and the doctor was found guilty and she was suspended for 15 days from work.
The Doctor went mad and so she complained her husband who did his duty and more , he went to the nurse at her night shift where he attacked her verbally and physically ,not only her but also to janitors who witnessed the incident and tried to stop him. The janitors were not the only who witnessed the incident but there was a guard and fire fighters ,as the fire station was in front of the hospital and the incident took place in the entrance. Among the things he said or ordered the nurse to do was to kiss the shoes of his wife the doctor !!!
After the terrifying experience all those who witnessed the incident warned the nurse from the influence of the police officer and his family and what he can do to harm her and her family . That night she decided to shut up ,it was Thursday ,Saturday she returned to the hospital to find that the doctor is complaining her in the administration and thus the nurse told her story to the supervisor nurse whom told her immediately to report the incident to the General manager of the hospital who immediately opened an investigation , the investigation reached to the conclusion that there was an assault by the doctor's husband and thus she must be stopped from working in the hospital . in Return the nurse received more threats from the officer that she will be accused in vice case and in drug case if she does not stop complaining , not that only she received a threat that her husband who works in the police force will be transferred to upper Egypt . The Woman lives in fear as the police officer and his family seems to have one hell of influence in the city.
The woman had nothing to do except to go for the media and human rights organization which recorded the incident as another attack on the civilians from the Police authority .
The Nurse whose name is Karima appeared in "90 minutes" and made all the people in the Arab republic of Egypt feel more angry from the police officer"Hassan El-Nashal" and his wife "Rabab" to the degree that made "Rabab" appear on TV in order to defend herself and her husband publicly after being disgraced not only nationally but internationally, the Doctor came and had to leave the TV show in the middle because of the delivery pains , oh yes she was pregnant. of course she and her lawyer kept speaking over and over about a corruption and conspiracy made against her in the hospital planed and executed from all the crew starting from the general manager to the janitor !!!
The General attorney decided to re-open the case again as it was closed , the case which is the assault of "El-Nashal" on "Karima" ,it was closed with no further conclusion despite all the witnesses
Here we got the classical scenario , the doctor who thinks that her husband is the king of the world because he works as a cop and his father is a general !! An officer who believes he owns the world because he is an officer and his daddy is a general. And the couple live for free in the annexe of the hospital because the mother of the officer was the manager once upon a time !!
With my all respect the story itself full of social problems all are resulting from the bad use of power and authority
see why I had to remember "The diary of a country prosecutor "