"Srya" establishes a association for foreign expatriates in the Maadi neighborhood, through which donations are collected to support the poor, and at the same time it forms a club that provides all entertainment for Europeans, and from this association we follow many personalities, whether they are foreigners or Egyptians, and we see the events of their lives, conflicts and their fate. The novel is floating around us throughout the English neighborhood, its streets and buildings, and its doors touched; Revealing its inhabitants, the intertwining of their relationships, aspirations, and the different feelings in them. "The English district is an ambitious work, with a clear effort, an interesting and wonderful novel, and most surprised me that its writer is in the beginning of the thirties" - the novelist "God made Ibrahim". "I did not imagine that he was still in Egypt after Naguib Mahfouz, who has the ability to present a great work of this quality, and of this size" - the writer and novelist "Ahmed Al -Khamisi"

حماد عليوة، روائي مصري من مواليد القاهرة عام 1982، عمل لعدة سنوات في التسويق العقاري، وصدرت له روايات: "الحي الإنجليزي"، "من أجل البلوند"، و"أغسطس".