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Title:

The Literary Life of Cairo : One hundred years in the heart of the city / edited and introduced by Samia Mehrez.

Publisher:

American University in Cairo Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xv, 433 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Cairo (Egypt)--Literary collections.
Cairo (Egypt)--In literature.
Cairo (Egypt)--Geography.

Other Authors:

Mehrez, Samia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (427-[430]) and index.

Contents:

The apartment of freedom / Cairo, mother of cities, again and again -- Birds of passage / Mohamed Berrada -- And Cairo burned / Ahamd Hussein -- Walking through fire / Nawal El Saadawi -- In the eye of the sun / Ahdaf Soueif -- Broken soul / Mohamed Mansi Qandil -- Homage to a belly dancer / Edward Said -- Heads ripe for plucking / Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- Broken soul / Mohamed Mansi Qandil -- The day the leader was killed / Naguib Mahfouz -- The map of love / Ahdaf Soueif -- The assassination of the big man / Ibrahim Issa -- I am free / Ihsan Abdel Quddus -- A girl from Shubra / Fathy Ghanem -- Pyramids road / Midhat Gazalé -- Zamalek / Chafika Hamamsy -- Apricots on the Nile / Colette Rossant -- Birds of passage / Robert Solé -- Mme Zitta Mendès, a last image / Alaa Al Aswany -- The Cairo house / Samia Serageldin -- Like a summer never to be repeated / Mohamed Berrada -- The apartment of freedom /
Robert Solé -- The novelists / Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- Saint Theresa / Bahaa Abdelmegid -- The law of inheritance / Yasser Abdel Latif -- The Yacoubian building / Alaa Al Aswany -- Thieves in retirement / Hamdi Abu Golayyel -- Palace walk / Naguib Mahfouz -- In the house of Muhammad Ali / Hassan Hassan -- The days / Taha Hussein -- Out of Egypt / Ihab Hassan -- A border passage / Leila Ahmed -- Pyramids road / Midhat Gazalé -- Colored rbbons from my life / Laila Osayran -- Out of place / Edward Said -- I am free / Ihsan Abdel Quddus -- Like a summer never to be repeated / Mohamed Berrada -- The blue aubergine / Miral al-Tahawy -- Taxi / Khaled Al Khamissi -- Palace walk / Naguib Mahfouz -- Harem years / Huda Shaarawi -- The open door / Latifa al-Zayyat -- And Cairo burned / Ahmad Hussein -- Poor / Idris Ali -- Birds of passage / Robert Solé -- The novelists /
Mohamed Berrada -- Like a summer never to be repeated / Latifa al-Zayyat -- A certain woman / Hala El Badry -- Heads ripe for plucking / Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- Wark rock / Radwa Ashour -- The heron / Ibrahim Aslan -- Zeenat marches in the president's funeral / Salwa Bakr -- Three suitcases for departure / Mona Prince -- The Yacoubian building / Alaa Al Aswany -- The Yacoubian building / Alaa Al Aswany -- Checkpoints / Mourid Barghouti -- Taxi / Khaled Al Khamissi -- The eye with an iron lid / Sharif Hatatah -- The ostrich egg / Raouf Musad -- The smell of it / Sonallah Ibrahim -- Memoirs from the women's prison / Nawal El Saadawi -- Secret pleasures / Hamdi el-Gazzar -- The return of the spirit / Tawfiq al-Hakim -- Midaq Alley / Naguib Mahfouz -- Palace walk / Naguib Mahfouz -- The man who lost his shadow / Fathy Ghanem -- The siren / Yusuf Idris -- Like a summer never to be repeated / Mohamed Berrada --
The Hashish waiter / Gamil Atia Ibrahim -- Frequent stops / Mohamed Salah al-Azab -- In the eye of the sun / Ahdaf Soueif -- The golden chariot / Salwa Bakr -- Taxi / Khaled Al Khamissi -- Barbed silk / Amira Abou-Taleb -- I want to get married / Ghada Abdel Al -- Midaq Alley / Naguib Mahfouz -- Five unread papers / Maguid Tobia -- The story of the Upper Egyptian / Yahya Taher Abdullah -- A dog with no tail / Hamdi Abu Golayyel -- Zeenat marches in the president's funeral / Salwa Bakr -- Cairo swan song / Mekkawi Said -- Farewell, Heaven / Hamid Abdel Samad -- Poor / Idris Ali -- An interval for bewilderment / Mohamed al-Fakharani -- Kyrie Eleison / Hani Abdel Mourid -- Adrift on the Nile / Naguib Mahfouz -- Did you have to turn on the light, Lili? / Yusuf Idris -- Saqqara grief / Ismail Wali al-Din -- Proud beggars / Albert Cossery -- Down to the sea / Gamil Atia Ibrahim -- The Hashish waiter /
Sonallah Ibrahim -- Cairo from edge to edge / Yasser Abdel Hafez -- A dog with no tail / Hamdi Abu Golayyel -- Ithaka / Raouf Musad -- A tale with moral / Yahya Taher Abdullah -- Sleeping with strangers / Bahaa Abdelmegid -- An interval for bewilderment / Mohamed al-Fakharani -- A 1/4 gram / Essam Youssef -- Cairo treason / Sherine Aboul Naga -- Cairo from edge to edge / Sonallah Ibrahim --

ISBN:

9774163907
9789774163906

OCLC:

(OCoLC)606779776

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)