A Well-Trained Stray (Arabic: كلب بلدي مدرب ʿKālb Bālādy Mudārab) is a novel by Muhammad Aladdin, an Egyptian author.

"A fresh sophisticated structure" as Akhbar Al-Adab called it,[1] and it is "a renovation on the linguistic, theoretical, and artistic levels" as the notable Egyptian critic Amani Fouad described it.

The novel begins with a comedic scene where Ahmad, the main character and the book's narrator, is with his friend Nevine in her car by Cairo-Alexandria desert road.

Ali Luza, a "Robin Hood targeting the Sluts", as Ahmad describes him in one point in the novel, escorts them for a while and pays for them, but after his boredom with the liaison, he just mugs them, getting his money back with extra.

Nevine got mugged by Luza as expected, and from what she said very briefly to Ahmad, she was also gang-raped before he took all of her money, credit cards, with codes, and made her sign a contract selling her expensive car.

It's a fiasco and facing this truth Ahmad improvises an even crazier scheme: Him and Abdullah, will wait in the spot Ali Louza will come to pick up the money and give back the car, in some alley near downtown.

Eventually, they went there, wearing two pairs of women's stockings over their heads so as not to be discovered (such a lousy old-fashioned way to masquerade, in tribute to old Egyptian action movies especially Adel Emam's "Al Mashbooh"), and they attacked Ali and Hamousa, who was taken aback.

It was highly notable that a certain line Aladdin wrote reflected how his protagonist review Egypt and its current condition:[citation needed] "Nobody has interfered with that fight, which seemed to me like everything in this city: A pseudo-something.

"[citation needed] On January 30, Aladdin spoke with Macia Lynx Qualey of Arabic Literature in English blog, stating that " I have built on our lives in the 1990s, and our nightmares in 2013".

[7] then he goes more to speak about the novel when asked about its variation of his previous works like The Gospel According to Adam " I guess A Well-trained Stray has more of a 'realistic' kick, the way it can be somehow a part of dirty realism.