The collection of short stories The True Miracle, the work of the only Arab Nobel Prize winner, the Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, brings eighteen stories that reveal the social situation and changes in Egypt, as experienced by ordinary, ordinary people. In addition to dilemmas about the meaning of life, the search for identity and the struggle for survival, the author also involved political events in society in the narrative. The stories follow each other in chronological order from 1938 to 2004, when the emergence of the Arab Spring is already felt, and are thematically and temporally intertwined with Mahfouz's novels - the trilogy The Path Between the Palaces, The Palace of Desire and Confectionery Street, which we also recommend reading. The writer is a visionary in his works, as he announces that life in this part of the world will sooner or later get out of hand. Today, his predictions are unfortunately coming true.