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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Description
191 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Anne-Marie Drosso's collection of fourteen short stories guides us through the turbulence of Egyptian modern history--from Gamal Abdel Nasser's early days of glory to Abdel Fatah el- Sisi's recent assumption of power. Each story weaves a tapestry of hope, crisis and despair illustrated by an array of characters trying to make sense of their lives in the face of social change and political turmoil. Drosso fictionalises potent segments of time from...
Author
Series
Cairo trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Description
399 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Arabic
Author
Series
Maḥfūẓ Najīb volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Description
527 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Arabic
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 248
Pub. Date
©2001.
Physical Description
xliii, 1,313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy of colonial Egypt is the story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife Amina, his cloistered...
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