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- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
No.5 in the Makana crime mystery series More trouble on the streets of Cairo in a gripping new investigation for ‘one of crime fiction’s most interesting and sympathetic detectives’ (The Times) A severed head washes up on the banks...
- Location(s): Egypt, North Africa
- Era(s): 1st Century BC
Daughters of the Nile is the final volume in Dray’s trilogy about Cleopatra’s daughter, Cleopatra Selene.
- Location(s): Egypt, Israel, Jordan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
A journey into the unknown. A rebellion against family, culture and society. A love against all odds. From Scandinavia to the Middle East, a young woman travels to discover herself and finds a world of passion and history, war...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1920s
Who shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was the role of the beautiful peasant girl called Rim? Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems? First published in 1937, Tawfik al-Hakim’s partly...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Early 2000s
It is the summer of 2001 and in Cairo’s crowded streets the heat is rising… The unsolved murders of young homeless boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred.As tensions mount, Makana – who fled his home in Sudan...
- Location(s): Beirut, Egypt, Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple’s previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an...
- Location(s): Egypt, Palestine, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Pittsburgh native and graduate student Ben Orbach traveled to the Middle East to experience the region first-hand. Despite having a degree in Middle Eastern studies, he was completely unprepared for...
- Location(s): Egypt, The Sudan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Set in 1950s Sudan, LYRICS ALLEY is the story of the powerful and sprawling Abuzeid dynasty. With Mahmoud Bey at its helm, the family can do no wrong. But when Mahmoud’s son, Nur – the brilliant, charming heir to...
- Location(s): Alexandria
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea make up the Alexandria Quartet. Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and...
- Location(s): Luxor, Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Lady Evelyn Herbert was the daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, brought up in stunning Highclere Castle. Popular and pretty, she seemed destined for a prestigious marriage, but she had other ideas. Instead, she left behind the world of...
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