"Khaled Al Khamissi presents fifty-eight encounters with Cairo taxi-drivers. There's a different story to each ride, as different problems and issues are raised (or similar ones are raised from different perspectives). Described as an urban sociology, an ethnography, a classic of oral history, these narratives tell stories of the struggle for survival and dignity among greater Cairo's 80,000 cab drivers. Taxi perhaps the most interesting of the works that chronicle the social and political transformations Egypt has undergone during the past five decades ..."--Www.complete-review.com.
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