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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): 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...
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...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s / 1950s
The Open Door is a landmark of women’s writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl’s coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian...
- Location(s): Cairo, Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Vibrantly descriptive and evocative of the waning colonial world in Egypt during the mid-20th century, this debut historical novel by Jasmin Attia is the compelling story of a young Egyptian woman, Laila, who defies the restrictive traditional roles set...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Meet Hatem el-Shenawi, a Muslim TV preacher who has won fame and fortune through his show delivering Islam to the masses. Affable, sharp-witted, and well-connected to the government and business elite of Cairo, Shenawi seems at the top of...
The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Time Slip
- Era(s): Medieval and 1990s
The misadventures of a modern time traveler through Egypt s recent and medieval past Ibn Shalaby, like many Egyptians, is looking for a job. Yet, unlike most of his fellow citizens, he is prone to sudden dislocations in time....
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