Whoshot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was the role of thebeautiful peasant girl Rim? Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as heseems?Diaryof a Country Prosecutor is an Egyptian comedy oferrors. Partly autobiographical, it is written as the journal of a young publicprosecutor posted to a village in rural Egypt. Imbued with the ideals of aEuropean education, he encounters a world of poverty and backwardness where animported legal system is both alien and incomprehensible.