Author Spotlight: Dr. Mohsen El-Guindy

Downfall is multinational because its setting is the world. Downfall is not just another fictitious ordinary novel, it is mostly a virtual reality novel based on documented political events that happened in our time. The book is highly romantic, political, social, and religious. Downfall is a scream rebelling against injustice. The torn Middle East shouts for peace. Downfall deals with the arrogance of power now trying to control the world without resorting to international legitimateness. Downfall is about the ruthless war against Islam without any logical reason. The novel exposes the western plot (The New Middle East) against the Middle East aiming at dividing it into religious and ethnic factions and sects living in small sectors without borders, so that the West could draw the map of the Middle East in accordance with its geostrategic needs and objectives. This vicious plan has led to millions of deaths, displacements and refugees now scattered on the borders of three countries without food or water. The blindsiding of Ameica with Israel against the Palestinians and America’s illegitimate war in Iraq are emphasized. The marriage between Zionism and the Christian Right, and its influence on the White House and American foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, is highlighted. This baseless contorted marriage spreads Islamophobia in America and threatens the solidarity of the American nation. The distorted political and religious fabric of America and its bad influence on America and the Middle East is also pinpointed. Downfall shows that political Islam, which is mainly a response to the occupation and exploitation of the Arab land by the West, is not the only threat to world peace, but also political Christianity, which America adopts against the Muslim world. By relying only on military power and political interest to run the globe, leaving behind thousands of victims and ruined homes, America is travelling away from its integrity and forgetting the fact that she has drawn upon herself Allah’s wrath. Economic deterioration has been snapping her feeble body from the inside for several decades now. The collapse of America’s huge global corporations and stock market, civil unrest, drought, natural disasters, and the deterioration in America’s ethical manners on all fronts are clear examples of such divine wrath. The perpetrators seem to forget that Allah does not love oppression and that His eyes sleep not. The events of the novel are played out by Omar, the Egyptian commando who was assigned later as the Egyptian ambassador to the United States, and Elizabeth, the daughter of the President of the United States, a human rights activist, who shared with Omar a sincere love and the fight for establishing peace and justice in a torn world.