Crime Night

Mahmoud Amin Suleiman, infamously known as “The Butcher of the Intellectuals,” was an Egyptian criminal whose life later inspired Naguib Mahfouz’s novel The Thief and the Dogs. Born into a well-off family, his criminal instincts surfaced at an early age, beginning with petty thefts in childhood before evolving into elaborate burglaries targeting Egypt’s wealthy and famous. His method relied on inf...

The case unfolds in Tunisia, beginning with the discovery of a young man’s body, later identified as Qays Yahya, a barber linked to undocumented immigration. At first, investigators struggle with a lack of leads, but the incident—soon dubbed “Qays Yahya, victim of undocumented immigration”—draws public attention. A breakthrough comes when an elderly woman recognizes details of Qays’s case as conne...