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- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s onwards
Nadia, now a young woman, looks back on her childhood from an uncertain present. Short, succinct chapters slowly draw us into her world: from the ordinary day to day of quiet hours spent cooking with her grandmother, to the...
- 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...
- Location(s): Cairo, Brooklyn, Leiden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On the eve of Salma’s twenty-first birthday, friends and family travel to New York for a celebration reluctantly organized by her grandfather Darwish. As the guests make their way to the party, each journey takes on a greater significance...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): early 21st century
Hani was out for an evening stroll near Cairos Tahrir Square when a heavy hand landed on his shoulder. An informant had identified him, and he was thrown into the back of a police truck. There began a seven-month...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black s old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven away from England by her fraught relationship with her own mother, is seeking refuge with...
Jake Atlas and the Tomb of the Emerald Snake
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Jake Atlas – tomb robber, treasure hunter, troublemaker! When Jake’s parents vanish, Jake and his sister team up with shady tomb robbers to find them in the Egyptian desert in this riveting page-turning adventure by award-winning author Rob Lloyd...
- Location(s): Alexandria, Cairo, Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): WW2
It is 1942 and the war is tearing Europe apart, shattering lives and devastating countries. But for some, it will be the greatest of adventures. Saba, a striking, headstrong singer from Wales defies her family to chase her dream...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the third part of Kamal Ruhayyim’s trilogy, Galal, the son of a mixed Jewish/Muslim family returns to Egypt after ten years in Paris. What he finds is a society in flux, yet still stifled by convention. As his...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires, Cairo, France, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): WW II
War rages across Europe. France is under the Nazi thumb. Britain has its back to the wall. In London, Scotland Yard detective Merlin investigates a series of disturbing events – a young girl killed in a botched abortion, a...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz’s best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who...
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