It was adapted into a movie in 2018 with the same name, Turab el Mass, starring Asser Yassin and Menna Shalaby, and directed by Marwan Hamed.
The story begins with the protagonist Taha who is living a normal boring life, and works as a medical representative at a pharmaceuticals company.
Mourad's breakthrough novel, The Blue Elephant (Arabic: الفيل الأزرق) published in October, 2012, which became the best-selling novel in Cairo International Book Fair in 2013.
A story about a psychiatrist named Yehia who returns to his job in El-Abbaseya hospital after five years of drop-out to find that his college mate Sherif just arrived for mental and psychological evaluation for being accused of murdering his own wife.
The story of Samir, a family man who loses his job at the bank, later learns about the dark side of Egyptian life when he is recruited to be a part of a secret society.