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02839cam a2200409 a 4500 001 3DEEFF662AFE11DE88878907A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20200609014621 008 000407s2000 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 00030088 020 $a 9780815606734 (alk. paper) 020 $a 0815606737 (alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d UKM $d XY4 $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BAKER $d IWP $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3569.E648 $b C35 2000 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 21 100 1 $a Serageldin, Samia. 245 1 $a The Cairo House : $b a novel / $c Samia Serageldin. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a [Syracuse, N.Y.] : $b Syracuse University Press, $c 2000. 300 $a ix, 233 p. ; $c 24 cm. 440 0 $a Arab American writing 520 $a Samia Serageldin's heroine, the daughter of a politically prominent, land-owning Egyptian family, witnesses the changes sweeping her homeland. Looking back to the glamorous Egypt of the pashas and King Faruk, Serageldin moves forward to the police state of the colonels who seized power in 1952 and the disastrous consequences of Nasser's sequestration policies. Through well-chosen portraits and telling descriptions of the era's fashions and furnishings, Serageldin conveys detailed social and cultural information. She offers a glimpse of the beach at Agami in the 1960s and conveys the change in mood through the Sadat years. Serageldin's fictional treatment of recent Egyptian history includes key events leading to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, such as the assassination of writer Yussef Siba'yi and the harassment of theologian Nasr Abu Zayd. Serageldin's heroine goes into exile in Europe and the United States but returns to Egypt in an attempt to reconcile her past and present. Charting fresh territory for the American reader, this semi-autobiographical novel is one of the most sensitive and accessible documents of historical change in Egyptian life. The book will appeal to a general audience and will be particularly useful to students interested in the social customs of the upper class in Egypt in the Nasser and Sadat years. A novel of a child growing up in Egypt & abroad within the framework of an affluent family who was proscribed under Nasser, but who survived. 650 0 $a Egyptian Americans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Young women $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Egypt $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Girls $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Autobiographical fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcsh 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 gsafd 651 4 $a Egypt $x Social conditions $y 20th centuryvFiction. 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718075517.0 952 $l N2AX314 $d 20210728013214.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3DEEFF662AFE11DE88878907A8D7520A 994 $a 03 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search