Dalida's story

The photographers, who suddenly spread out in every direction, began taking pictures of the attendees as they shook hands or exchanged conversations with their cameras, which never stopped flashing in a frantic manner that almost caused me to go temporarily blind. The shots taken seemed artificial and repetitive to the point of boredom, but the most frequently repeated photo remained the one that each attendee was keen to take with the star of the party, the author of the novel that will be discussed today, or rather with her giant photo that was placed at the entrance to the library as an advertisement for the party from which its owner was absent, just as she had disappeared from the entire world four months before, during which the impact of her resounding departure was not hidden from everyone who knew her, and even those who did not know her, so that the name "e;Dalida Fahmy"e; became like a horrific nightmare that haunts all dreamers like her, for fear of repeating her fate.