The City of Pleasure Arabic: مدينة اللذة is Ezzat el Kamhawi's first novel, and second book after It Happened in the land of Dust and Mud (stories).

In his novel, Kamhawi attempted to personify an entire city where he deals with issues related to love and sex.

People real and shadowy, strong slaves and emperors have met their doom at the gates of the City of Pleasure.

Eventually the gates of the impenetrable city succumbs under the charm of two ingenious commodities: fried potatoes and pepsi-cola.

Gamal El-Ghitani: A novel belonging to a new writing and a newer vision, where tradition is mixed with contemporary life, this novel represents a strong distinct voice, accompanied by other voices in the literary scene now establishing new insights that can accommodate the concerns of man and reality to express them in different ways.