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- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of fashionable downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gather regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeems den. The den is the center of their lives, both a refuge and a...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Egyptian
When Nefertari’s entire family is killed in a fire, she’s left to grow up alone, a spare princess in the palace of the new Pharaoh. Her young life is overshadowed by the past – the name of her infamous...
- Location(s): Upper Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Nader, an idealistic public prosecutor at the outset of his career, leaves Cairo to start a new posting in rural upper Egypt. On his first night, a mysterious woman named Hoda shows up at his lodgings. She is on...
- Location(s): Hollywood, Egypt, London, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s and 1930s
1921: a boy, a girl, a moonlit midnight kiss. A terrible, repulsive kiss. Bettina and Bart have grown up as best friends, so surely they will end up together? After all, Bettina is young, rich, headstrong…. and gay. Bart...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s / Contemporary
As I turn the rusted key in the worn lock, I know the secrets beyond these faded walls might change my life forever… Can I breathe new life into the dusty corridors that my beloved aunt once walked? The...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 20th Century
Spanning twentieth-century Egyptian history and opening with the true story of a prominent Cairo businessman’s murder, this rags-to-riches story wondrously combines real-life events with fiction, told by a “magical storyteller” It was in the spring of 1927 that Cairo’s...
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
- Location(s): Cairo, Berkeley
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 11th - 21st Century
Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the centuries-old history that binds...
- Location(s): Montreal, Balochistan, Cairo
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Present
John Viera left his CIA fieldwork hoping for a “normal” occupation and a long-awaited family, but when a Pakistani engineer is kidnapped from a top-secret US project and diplomatic entanglements tie the government’s hands, the Intelligence Community turns to...
The Magnificent Conman of Cairo
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Khaled, the spoiled idle son of a pasha, meets Malim, carpenter’s apprentice and son of a scoundrel, when he comes to fix a broken window. In the course of his work, Malim stumbles across a stash of money and...
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
- Location(s): Brooklyn, Cairo, Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s, 1960s
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on...
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