Increase, Paperback Book, By: Al-Zairi Khaled Ahmed

Ziada is a girl from a village in Sohag, the daughter of a hired man who works with an ax to earn his living. He has seven daughters and one son, and she is daughter number five. When her father was working in the field, they told him of her arrival and what he would name her. He looked away and said, "I call it an increase." Her father, whose name is Miskin, thinks that she came more than he needed. He was waiting for the boy to come, not the girl. In his view, the girl is a shame and shame! Many problems arise between her, her father, and society. About the Author He was born in Sohag Governorate. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Veterinary Medicine from Assiut University. He travelled to the United States of America and obtained a Master's degree in Molecular Biology. He worked at Long Island Hospital in New York, in the Medical Genetics Unit - America. He worked as a research assistant at Queen's University in Kingston, Toronto - Canada. He ran the Genomica Laboratory for Genetic Diagnosis in Sohag - Egypt. Author of the book (The Stem Cell), published by Dar Alam Al-Maarifa in Kuwait, 2008.