Blogs in February 2021

Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue 12th February 2021

EGYPTIAN PLACES: AN ILLUSTRATED TRAVELOGUE contains over 200 hand drawings and day by day observations and architectural commentary and a description of many of the temples and pyramids of Ancient Egypt, as well as information on ancient Egyptian culture...

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Egyptian Places 29th January 2021

Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue, presents an architect’s account of visits to 12 of Ancient Egypt’s most spectacular sites, a journey that transports the reader from the urban metropolis of Cairo and the Great Pyramid of Giza to the...

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Midaq Alley 14th January 2021

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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The Girls from Alexandria 12th January 2021

Memories are fragile when you are seventy years old. I can’t afford to lose any more of them, not when remembering the past might help with the here and now. Nadia needs help. Help getting out of her hospital...

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Death Sets Sail 28th September 2020

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...

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