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1) Palace walk
Author
Series
Cairo trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Description
498 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900's.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Atbara, Sudan, 1913. A dead man is fished out of the River Nile. An accident or something more sinister? A visiting Pasha from the Royal Household believes it was murder and that he himself was the intended target. He insists that the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedives Secret Police, escorts him on his return train journey to Cairo, for protection. It's to be an eventful voyage"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A British astronomer, Thayer, high on Darwin and other progressive scientists of [his] age, has come to believe that beings more highly evolved than us are alive on Mars (he has evidence) and that there will be a perfect moment in which we can signal to them that we are here, too. He gets the support and funding for a massive project to build the Equilateral, a triangle with sides hundreds of miles long, in the desert of Egypt in time for that perfect...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Description
172 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Cairo, Egypt, 1913. When schoolgirl Marie Kewfik is kidnapped, snatched away as she strolled through the bustling bazaars of the Souk, the Khedive insists that the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Secret Police, takes charge of the negotiations for her safe return. The Kewfiks are one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in Egypt but, as the Mamur Zapt discovers, not everyone thinks it's worth the trouble to secure the release of a mere girl. He also...
Author
Series
Maḥfūẓ Najīb volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Description
581 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Arabic
Author
Series
Maḥfūẓ Najīb volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Description
527 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Arabic
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