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    The story introduces Mahmud Pasha, a wealthy Egyptian man of Turkish origin who dislikes Egyptians. While visiting Pasha's mansion, the narrator and Professor Daryen witness a mummy awakening in Pasha's underground tombs. The mummy, the Egyptian king Hur, curses Pasha for mistreating his descendants before Pasha dies of terror.

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    The story introduces Mahmud Pasha, a wealthy Egyptian man of Turkish origin who dislikes Egyptians. While visiting Pasha's mansion, the narrator and Professor Daryen witness a mummy awakening in Pasha's underground tombs. The mummy, the Egyptian king Hur, curses Pasha for mistreating his descendants before Pasha dies of terror.

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    the mummy awakens

    February 02, 2024


    06:16 AM

    The Mummy Awakens Introduction


    “The Mummy Awakens” is the story
    of Mahmud Pasha. He is Turk in
    origin, French in taste and Egyptian by
    nationality. He has a great collection of
    art, paintings and statues. He loves the
    people of French origin. He does not
    believe Egyptians as cultured beings
    rather he expresses his hatred towards
    them. He has extraordinary love for
    French politics and culture. There we
    should not miss the point that once Turks
    used to rule over Egypt and this was
    replaced by France. The writer has grudge
    against both the nationalities Thus having
    a Franco-Turkish character in his story he
    speaks high of Egyptian cultural traditions
    and very low of Turkish and French.
    the mummy awakens summary
    The narrator starts the story with an air
    of uncertainty. In order to give certainty
    to his story, he shifts its narration to
    professor Daryen who is a true witness
    to the event of Mummy being awakened.
    They decide to visit the mansion of
    Mahmud Pasha who is an elite and a very
    famous personality. When they were in,
    they were struck by the beauty of art in
    Pasha’s house. He was multi-dimensional
    personality. He was a Turk in origin,
    Egyptian by nationality and a Frenchman
    by tastes who didn’t have a good opinion
    of the Egyptians. The late Pasha was
    one of the richest men in Egypt, and was
    highly cultured and conscientious as well.
    As far as he was concerned, the time
    he spent beneath a French sky was the
    happiest in his life. Most cultured French
    people knew him only as an amateur
    enthusiast for the fine arts or else as a
    poet who composed beautiful romantic
    poetry in French. On that particular day
    I took my place beside the Pasha. “Your
    Excellency”, he said to the Pasha, “this
    mansion of yours would need a little
    modification to become a museum in
    its own right.” “I owe it all to my eclectic
    taste,” the Pasha commented.

    Meanwhile a person was beaten by his


    servant and Pasha also ordered that the
    person should be arrested by the police.
    He then took professor Daryen into
    his garden where diggings were taking
    place. Daryen was also interested in
    archeological expeditions. They visited
    things around and a huge stone was
    removed. After the stone was removed,
    there was a vast space which led to
    a direction. It led to the tomb of the
    Egyptian king; Hur who was lying in the
    tomb as a mummy. They saw that the
    mummy of Hur began to move. They
    were greatly terrified because there was
    a mummy and a complete darkness. The
    mummy even began to talk as Daryen felt
    him behave like that. The mummy called
    Pasha his slave. His face resembled the
    person whom Pasha had beaten and
    asked to be arrested by the police. He
    asked Pasha why he was cruelly treating
    his decadents because the person whom
    Pasha had belonged to Hur’s decadence.
    The mummy began to roar in terror.
    Pasha couldn’t bear that roaring accent
    of Mummy and died of terror. The two
    servants there got mad but Daryen got
    saved for some miracle. What was the
    poor man supposed to say? Life had been
    restored to the mummy, but it seemed to
    have abandoned the Pasha even though
    he was still alive. Hur got the impression
    that the Pasha was not prepared to
    say anything. “What’s the matter with
    you?” Have slaves become masters and
    masters slaves? How is it, slave, that
    you can own such a large mansion, while
    my own descendants work in it as your
    servants? A curse upon you, slave!” Hur’s
    threats had spread a new sense of terror
    into the room which finally put an end
    to whatever self-control people had left.
    Shaykh Jadallah soon fell to his face on
    the floor, and the lamp fell with him. As
    my own good fortune would have it, I lost
    consciousness at this point and I was
    no longer aware of either world. What
    about Hur’s tomb and the now deserted
    mansion?

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