Lead Review

  • Book: The Golden Scales
  • Location: Cairo
  • Author: Parker Bilal

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Bilal’s account of Egypt is bursting with the life of “Great Cairo, mother of the world”. If you want to know why Egyptians were finally so appalled by corruption that they mounted the 2011 revolution, this brilliant piece of fiction will set the scene just before the country burst into flames. The Independent

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