"It is as if I wrote my love for you on the pages of my eyes, so that every other woman who encounters me will read it and know that I love and adore... As for your picture, I have drawn it in my heart; So that the eyes of others do not see it and envy me for the happiness I am in.. I feel for the first time that I am in love, and I will not give up this feeling as long as I live..."
This novel is a creative work that sheds intense light on a very sensitive area, penetrating the heart of the African environment in which the tendencies of human trafficking clash with the noblest efforts of civilization. Dr. Salah Fadl
In "Toya", Ashraf El-Ashmawy surprises us with an amazing world in the middle of the African jungle, the continent of oppression and freedom, pristine nature and human trade, and between all of that, a beautiful love story awakens between Youssef and Toya, who bears a Pharaonic name that has historical significance. Ibrahim Abdel Majeed
In his second novel, "Toya," Ashraf El-Ashmawy used myth and disparate characters traveling in multiple places, easily reaching the reader's conscience, drawing the attention of critics and those interested in literature to his creativity, and making it shortlisted for the Booker Competition. Makkawi Saeed