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- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
In this earliest-known version of Cinderella, a rosy-cheeked girl called Rhodopis is abducted by bandits from her home in Greece and enslaved in Egypt. Although she finds friends, she remains unhappy, until one day the gift of a pair...
Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, 57 BC
- Location(s): Alexandria, Rome
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 57 BC
Established “Dear America” author Kristiana Gregory kicks off “The Royal Diaries” with the captivating story of a young Cleopatra’s life. While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she...
- Location(s): Alexandria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In the 1970s, once-cosmopolitan Alexandria was at the forefront of the clash between Nasser’s socialist-era principles and the burgeoning fundamentalist movement. Five idealistic students find themselves caught up in this tangled web, as their leftist activism makes them a...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The first Amelia Peabody adventure, in which she comes into her inheritance and decides to see the world. Rescuing Evelyn Barton-Forbes on her way, she arrives in Egypt where they meet Radcliffe Emerson, an archaeologist who doesn’t need help...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s / 2000BCE
In the 1920s, archeologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon of Highclere Castle made headlines around the world with the discovery of the treasure-filled tomb of the boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun. But behind it all stood Lady Evelyn Herbert—daughter of Lord...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Egyptian
Egypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh’s pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her archery skills in the Nile’s marshlands. But the death of her elder sister, Neferubity, in a gruesome...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): contemporary
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt, taking a cruise along the Nile. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two; what they get, instead, is murder. Also travelling on the SS Hatshepsut...
- 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): Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1948 onwards
In this sequel to Ibrahim Fawal’s critically acclaimed On the Hills of God (winner of the PEN Oakland Award), the young Palestinian Yousif Safi searches throughout Jordan for Salwa, his bride, from whom he was separated during their forced...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Future, Short Stories
- Era(s): 2111
Egypt + 100 poses a question to ten contemporary Egyptian authors: what might your country look like in the year 2111 – exactly a century after the (ultimately unsuccessful) Tahrir Square revolution? Might Egypt still be in the grips...
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