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- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Egyptian
Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods and mortals...
Barnabas Tew and the Case of the Missing Scarab
- Location(s): Egypt, London
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Victorian, Ancient Egypt
In “Barnabas Tew and The Case of the Missing Scarab” two well-intentioned but somewhat ineffective detectives, Barnabas and Wilfred, find themselves snatched from their comfortable, if unremarkable, lives in Victorian London to solve a case that threatens all of...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Behind the bar at Jameel’s in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no Bass...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 1800s
When twenty-two-year-old Olivia is coerced into marriage by the cruel Alistair Sheldon she leaves England for Egypt, his home and the land of her own childhood. Reluctant as she is to go with Alistair, it’s in her new home...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Is living on the edge of society a choice? Or is choice a luxury of the fortunate? Joe, fighting drug addiction, runs until the sea halts his progress. His is a faltering search for meaningful relationships. ‘Let Luck be...
- Location(s): Cairo, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sherif “Sheero” Abdallah is an NYU student reveling in independence, free from the judgmental gaze of his conservative family in Egypt to indulge in all sorts of pleasures. When the FBI comes knocking on his door, he’s convinced it’s...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000
In the shadows of great wealth, and among Cairo’s famous monuments, runs a world of street children. Mustafa, a former student radical who never really believed in the slogans, sets out to tell their story through a documentary he...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Egyptian
Thirty-five centuries ago the sun had a daughter: Hatshepsut. Youngest daughter of the Pharaoh, she was a lithe and magical child. But when her older sister died, it became her duty to purify the dynasty’s bloodline. She was to...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 2000s
‘A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode to all the people who have kept it going’ Harvard Review In 2002, three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to...
- 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...
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