Zakaria is an adaptation of the last book “Dreams” by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, made as a tribute for the 100th anniversary of Mahfouz’s birthday. “Zakaria” is a special treatment of a complex book which has been described as a mixture of the great novelist’s hallucinations and dreams as he lay in his hospital bed, facing his fear of death and questioning his life and his choices. Maher has inserted his life, facing his own fears in this film through adapting three of Mahfouz’s dreams.