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Author
Publisher
Saqi
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Meet the people of Cairos Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing and sweet halva, the quarter keeps quiet vigil over the secrets of all who live there. This collection by pre-eminent Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz...
62) Cairo 678
Series
Publisher
Global Film Initiative
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
Arabic
Description
Three Cairene women from different backgrounds join together in uneasy solidarity to combat the sexual harassment that has impacted each of their lives.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning journalist tells the inside story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by following two courageous and pivotal leaders--and their imperfect decisions that changed the world. In January 2011, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, a group of strangers sparked a revolution. Basem, an apolitical middle-class architect, jeopardized the lives of his family when he seized the chance to improve his country. Moaz, a contrarian Muslim Brother, defied his own...
Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Millions of people have fled from conflicts and persecution in all parts of this Northeast African country, and many thousands more have been enslaved as human spoils of war. In this book, refugees and abductees recount their escapes from the wars in Darfur and South Sudan, from political and religious persecution, and from abduction by militias. In their own words, they recount life before their displacement and the reasons for their flight. They...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet Book
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When the discovery of a third-century scroll that had disappeared from the Vatican archives, to surface in the stall of a murdered Cairo market trader, it promps police detective Chris Bronson and historian Angela Lewis to decipher its message at the risk of their lives.
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this important collection, eighteen renowned writers, including David Remnick, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Skloot, Rory Stewart, and Adam Gopnik evoke the spirit and history of some of the world’s most recognized and significant city squares, accompanied by illustrations from equally distinguished photographers. Over half of the world’s citizens now live in cities, and this number is rapidly growing. At the heart of these municipalities is the square—the...
Author
Publisher
Hoopoe, an imprint of The American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nidal, after many decades of restless exile, returns to her family home in Nablus, where she had lived with her grandmother before the 1948 Nakba that scattered her family across the globe. She was a young girl when the popular resistance began and, through the bloodshed and bitter struggle, Nidal fell in love with freedom fighter Rabie. He was her first and only real love--him and all that he represented: Palestine in its youth, the resistance fighters...
Author
Publisher
Porto Editora
Pub. Date
março de 2023.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Um thriller explosivo sobre o preço a pagar por um sonho de menino. Karim tem o destino traçado, e não será diferente do de todas as outras crianças que, como ele, deambulam pelas ruas do Cairo. É totalmente impossível escapar à pobreza em que vive. Tudo muda quando se cruza com o ancião Islam, que o conduz pelo sinuoso caminho da doutrinação islâmica e da Irmandade Muçulmana. O talento futebolístico de Karim leva-o, com a ajuda do...
Author
Publisher
New Europe Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In his award-winning new collection, one of Hungary's top writers takes us to the edge--where fiction meets journalism Set mostly in contemporary Cairo and Iraq, as well as Israel, London, and Hungary, these twelve short stories are a staggering follow-up to those in the acclaimed collection The Devil Is a Black Dog by leading Hungarian writer/photojournalist S©Łndor J©Łszber©♭nyi. Told from the perspective of Cairo-based European war correspondent...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
While Mr. World plots revenge for the attack against him in Season One, Shadow throws in his lot with Wednesday₂s attempt to convince the Old Gods of the case for full-out war, with Laura and Mad Sweeney in tow. A council at the House on the Rock explodes into chaos, sending deities both old and new on quests across America that will converge on Cairo, Illinois. Shadow is forced to carve out a place as a believer in this strange new world of living...
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their extraordinary powers. From acclaimed thriller writer P.B. Kerr comes an exceptional, imaginative adventure trilogy about a twin boy and girl with magical powers. A one-armed chauffeur? + Twin djinn? + Three wishes? Qwertyuiop! What...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Fugitive Atlas is a sweeping, impassioned account of refugee crises, military occupations, and ecological degradation, an acute, probing journey through a world in upheaval. Khaled Mattawa's chorus of speakers finds moments of profound solace in searching for those lost-in elegy and prayer-even when the power of poem and faith seems incapable of providing salvation. With extraordinary formal virtuosity and global scope, these poems turn not to lament...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The "Arab Spring" all started when a young Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire in protest of a government official confiscating his apples without cause and slapping his face. The aftermath of that one personal protest grew to become the Middle East movement known as the Arab Spring -- a wave of disparate events that included revolutions, protests, government overthrows, hopeful reform movements, and bloody civil wars. This book will be the...
78) Mummy eaters
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Following in the footsteps of an imagined ancestor, one of the daughters of the house of Akhenaten in the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt, Sherry Shenoda forges an imagined path through her ancestor's mummification and journey to the afterlife"--
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world. The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen...
Publisher
Dust to Digital
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This watershed release represents the life's work of William Ferris, an audio recordist, filmmaker, folklorist, and teacher with an unwavering commitment to establish and to expand the study of the American South. William Ferris was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1942. Growing up on a working farm, Ferris began at a young age documenting the artwork, music, and lives of the people on the farm and in his local community. The archive of recordings...
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