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Diary of a Jewish Muslim
Location(s): Cairo
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 1930s - 1960s
Egyptian Muslims and Jews were not always at odds. Before the Arab Israeli wars, before the mass exodus of Jews from Egypt, there was harmony. Spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, this sweeping novel accompanies Galal, a young boy with a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, through his childhood and boyhood in a vibrant popular quarter of Cairo. With his schoolboy crushes and teen rebellions, Galal is deeply Egyptian, knit tightly into the middle-class fabric of manners, morals, and traditions that cheerfully incorporates and transcends religiona fabric about to be torn apart by a bigger world of politics that will put Galals very identity to the test.
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