House of the Wolf (Bayt al-Deeb, Arabic: بيت الدِّيب) is Ezzat el Kamhawi's fourth novel and eighth book.
It was first released in Arabic language in 2010 by Dar Al-Adab in Beirut.
In December 2012, el Kamhawi was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature award for this novel,[1] the English edition was released in 2013 by AUC Press.
In House of the Wolf el-Kamhawi deals with the lives of four generations of the Wolf (Al-Deeb) rural Egyptian family for more than one hundred and fifty years, monitoring the Egyptian and World history through the history of the family.
A novel of 272 pages of medium size, and thus is considered the biggest work for Ezzat el Kamhawi, a writer known for his intensive language.