"We Do Not Sow Thorns" is one of the most famous novels by the romantic knight, the great writer Youssef El Sebaei. The novel's events take place in a working-class neighborhood in Cairo, where the heroine, "Sayyida," grows up as a child torn apart by poverty and oppression after her mother's passing and lives a life of humiliation after her father's sudden death, to the point that she thinks life offers her nothing but thorns. But in the midst of darkness, a spark of love and hope ignites. Can she confront the ghosts of her past, or will the thorns planted by circumstances continue to hurt her? It's a moving novel that reveals the fragility of humankind and its deep-seated strength, through the story of a girl striving for dignity and survival. The novel was adapted into a film in 1970 and a television series in 1998.

أديب مصري من مواليد القاهرة 1917م. التحق بالكلية الحربية عام 1935م، وتولَّى العديد من المناصب العسكرية والثقافية، مثل رئاسة تحرير روز اليوسف، وآخر ساعة، ودار الهلال، والأهرام، وشغل منصب وزير الثقافة. اشتُهِر بإسهاماته في الرواية والقصة، ومن أشهر أعماله «السقا مات»، «أرض النفاق»، «بين الأطلال»، «إني راحلة»، وتحوَّلت جميعها لأفلام تُعَدُّ من أفضل كلاسيكيات السينما المصرية.