Hassoun examined the special problems they face in processing and transmitting what is mostly communicated to them through their parents' narratives of displacement, loss and exile.
Hassoun wrote several works on the history of the modern Jews of Egypt, among them Histoire des Juifs du Nil (Minerve, 1990), Alexandies et autres récits and Alexandries (a novel).
He wrote eloquently of the culture of the Jews of Egypt and of their disappearance in the wake of Egyptian nationalism.
[2] He studied at the Lycee De L'Union Juive and joined Democratic Movement for National Liberation (HADETU), the largest of the illegal communist organizations in Egypt.
[2] He settled in France in 1954 at the age of 18, where he had been exiled after being accused and imprisoned by Egyptian authorities for communist activity.
Melancholy for Hassoun is the result of a gesture that leaves the infant to suffer interminably for having spied the mother's indifference at the moment of weaning.