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- Location(s): Alexandria
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th century
Set in luxuriant cosmopolitan Alexandria, this richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family from its bold arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and...
Palace Of Desire: Cairo Trilogy 2
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
The sensual and provocative second volume in the Cairo Trilogy, Palace Of Desire follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920’s and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Adventure, Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
‘This complex, compelling tale is told with simplicity and grace’ – The Times A story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers. For millennia the location of the...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1922
London, 1922. A discovery from ancient Egypt . . . A cursed package . . . The untold story of a young pharaoh . . . When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad’s doorstep, she is shocked...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary /1942
The grand painted arches and turquoise tiles in front of me exactly match those in the photograph in my hand. I’ve found my beloved aunt’s villa. The place she loved – and feared. And the place she tried so...
- Location(s): Luxor, Upper Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Luxor, 1946. When young nurse Aida El Masri returns from war-torn London to her family’s estate in Egypt she steels herself against the challenges ahead. Eight years have passed since her father, Ayoub, was framed for a crime he...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Sugar Street, the climactic conclusion to Mafhouz’s masterpiece trilogy, is the captivating portrait of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost...
- Location(s): Tanta
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tales of Yusuf Tadrus is set in the Egyptian Delta town of Tanta, and tells the story of a young Coptic artist from a humble background. It provides an intimate glimpse into Egyptian Christian life, and carefully tells of...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
A foreign correspondent traces the 4,000-mile plank-board boat journey he took with an inexperienced childhood friend along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea, a trip inspired by Alan Moorehead’s classic chronicles during which the author...
The Book of Cairo (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
A police officer tortures one last suspect in the most important assignment of his career: to find the ultimate Truth… A woman confesses her love to a reclusive, masked man in a video rental shop… A disgraced doctor confronts...
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