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The storyteller is a skilled hunter, and a wondrous magician, who knows how to grasp the simple details to turn them into an inspiring story, in which he pours from himself and his impressions and feelings to weave a unique story, and this was the case of Agatha.
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Loneliness sometimes creates wonders, as this lady spent a good amount of her early life as a prisoner of the house and did not leave it, after her mother preferred that her child receive her education at the hands of her and her sister, so that Agatha actually spent more than 8 years learning writing, music and reading books at the hands of her family without To set foot in any school, and she was born in a well-to-do middle-class family.
And because changes in our lives do not come suddenly, but result from accumulations and aftershocks, a lot has changed in her life in the following years, but writing remained her companion that later changed her life.
In 1910, Agatha turns 20, and it is decided to share with a group of students their trip - within the social programs that were organized at the time - that lasts 3 months, and it is her first trip outside her country, and her destination was Egypt, which was under British control.
Two years before the publication of her novel, her heart was on a date with Colonel Archibald Christie, so she married him and obtained from him her famous title (Agatha Christie).
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In Egypt, Agatha may not have been very impressed with the landmarks of her ancient civilization, but those landmarks inspired her a lot, so that she wrote there her first short romantic novel, which she called "Snow on the Sands of the Desert", but she was not lucky to publish it, and she kept folding the papers.
World War I breaks out in 1914, and Agatha joins many British girls who have become army nurses to support the military effort.
The war and military atmosphere changes a lot in her thinking and the way she writes, so she finds herself moving towards writing novels related to investigations and solving crimes.
Thus, during camp nights, she wrote the events of her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair of Styles." She was lucky this time, so she was able to publish it in 1916. In this novel, her readers witnessed the birth of the character of the famous detective, Hercule Poirot, who deciphered the mystery of the murdered woman's crime, and there was nothing left of her. Around her is a broken cup of coffee and some few signs that make it difficult to reach the perpetrator, and some in England became familiar with the personality of Hercule Poirot, the genius detective, and thus her first novel, which she wrote in the midst of war, succeeded.
The funny thing is that Hercule Poirot was nothing but a fictional character from her brainchild, but with enviable intelligence, she was able to embody him in the world of her novels in the following years, so that some of her readers - due to the strong belief of many in the Hercule Poirot series of novels - imagine that he is a real legal investigation figure.
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Two years before the publication of her novel, her heart was on a date with Colonel Archibald Christie, so she married him and obtained from him her famous title (Agatha Christie).
By 1923 and the mystery of the famous Egyptian tomb of Tutankhamun was revealed, Agatha was very excited about this event, and decided to tell her readers that Hercule Poirot was still there, so she wrote a short story starring her secret investigator, entitled "An Adventure in an Egyptian Cemetery."
5 years pass, she separates from her husband, and decides to travel again, choosing the Caribbean islands, but two days before her departure, her friends suggest an alternative destination, which is Baghdad, where her travel will be via the luxurious Orient Express after leaving Britain towards the east.
Agatha's genius lies in her ability to transform what is going on around her into story inspiration. A trip on a luxury train was enough to inspire her with one of the most successful and best-selling novels in her history, without there being an unusual event on the trip or something supernatural.
Just a trip on a train turns into a story that captures the hearts of readers and the minds of viewers after turning it into a movie many decades later, which is the novel "Murder on the Orient Express".
Agatha arrives in Iraq, and goes to a famous archaeological site for the city of Ur, which was the capital of the Sumerian state. By chance, she meets a British mission excavating for antiquities in that city rich in history. University professor Leonard Woolley and his wife, archaeologist Catherine Woolley, who was a huge fan of Agatha, participate in this mission. .
Agatha is fascinated by the excavation and excavation work, and the two scientists encourage her to accompany them. They even invited her in 1930 to participate with them in the work of the mission, but they did not expect that their invitation would be a wide gateway to many changes in her life.
In Ur, Sumeria, Iraq, Agatha meets researcher and scientist Max Mallowan, who was 25 years old at the time. He came to the mission after being absent from the first mission due to his illness, so that the meeting took place between him and Agatha for the first time.
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Agatha receives a message from Britain that her daughter Rosalind has fallen ill, and she must come for her quickly, so she actually returns to Britain with Max Mallowan, who is almost 14 years younger than her, and they did not need more than 6 months to decide to marry without looking at the age difference between them. Between them is love and exploration, and his exploratory missions were inspiring to her and her stories were interesting to him.
Agatha gains extensive experience in the excavation and exploration trips in which she participated with her husband, to the extent that she took charge of preparing his trips and checking the belongings and equipment of each trip, and even became involved with him in excavation missions in the Middle East, and both of them were happy with this cheerful and supportive participation.
Later, Agatha decides to write a novel about excavations and excavations in Syria and Iraq, bringing with her that mysterious flavor that she always likes to add to what she writes, bringing together memories of beautiful cities, talent and love for writing.
In 1922, they headed to Egypt again, then to South Sudan on board a ship that was owned by the royal family in Egypt, and later turned into a cruise ship.
The ship navigated its course across the Nile while Agatha was recording her observations and thoughts about what she saw of an atmosphere unlike any other in Britain.
Max loved the happiness of his wife, Agatha, in Egypt, seeing the Nile and the beautiful atmosphere in it, so he accompanied her on all his trips there, until she returned several years after this trip to Aswan, so she stayed with her husband in the famous “Cataract” hotel, and she spent a long time there at the window of her room, sitting In front of the Nile, she draws inspiration from him and inspires her non-stop.
Agatha later turned that long stay into one of the most famous and successful novels of her entire career, "Murder on the Nile";
In it, she combined her genius view of mystery and crime novels with the atmosphere and observations she recorded about the Nile, its paths, and its surroundings, to present a genius work.
Years after writing her novel about the Nile, Agatha remained attached to the city of Aswan, which she did not forget, so that whenever she read the novel, she remembered her days while sitting in front of the Nile, and even imagined herself among the characters in the novel living near the shore of the Nile, so the events of the novel take place with the investigator Hercule Poirot alongside The Cataract Hotel, the characters, and the events are all centered around the Nile, Aswan, and Wadi Halfa in particular, being one of the cities that Agatha loved most and was inspired by a lot.
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World War II breaks out in 1939, and Agatha and her husband's trips to the Middle East stop, she returns to Britain with her daughter, and her husband stays in Cairo for a while after he took a job in the Egyptian Ministry of Aviation due to his mastery of Arabic and their need for his presence because of the circumstances of the war.
Although Agatha's travels to the Middle East, which she loved, stopped, it remained clearly stuck in her mind. During the Second World War, she wrote memoirs recounting her husband's adventures and discoveries in Egypt and Sudan.
Later, Agatha decides to write a novel about the excavations and excavations in Syria and Iraq, bringing with her that mysterious flavor that she always likes to add to what she writes, bringing together memories of beautiful cities, talent and love for writing.
In the simple, poor cities of the East, Agatha found the details that characterize ordinary life, which she believed were more inspiring than the extraordinary archaeological discoveries. Even food tools, handicrafts, and other simple things were enough to give her the image she was looking for and could not find in her country.
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Perhaps European countries were beautiful enough to dazzle the eyes of many, but the simple details of their beauty and simplicity that Agatha found in the East inspired her to write many of her novels in one of the strangest paradoxes that shaped the life of a writer who lived the greater part of her childhood not leaving the borders of her city or even her village, to find herself She writes about a world she did not imagine, or perhaps she heard about it what the supporters of Western colonial thought tell about the eastern Arab society, but until this moment it is embodied in her works, which are successively transformed into cinematic and dramatic versions that attract the attention of millions of viewers around the world.
Agatha Christie passed away from our world on January 12, 1976, leaving behind dozens of novels that are still translated and read until now and fascinate many, and immortalized with her two distinct love stories: the first for her husband, and the second for a land in which a pure spring flows that inspired her stories.