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Diary of a Jewish Muslim

Diary of a Jewish Muslim

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Publisher's Synopsis

Egyptian Muslims and Jews were not always at odds. Before the Arab-Israeli wars, before the mass exodus of Jews from Egypt, there was harmony.

Spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, this sweeping novel accompanies Galal, a young boy with a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, through his childhood and boyhood in a vibrant popular quarter of Cairo. With his schoolboy crushes and teen rebellions, Galal is deeply Egyptian, knit tightly into the middle-class fabric of manners, morals, and traditions that cheerfully incorporates and transcends religion-a fabric about to be torn apart by a bigger world of politics that will put Galal's very identity to the test.

Book information

ISBN: 9789774168413
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Imprint: Hoopoe
Pub date:
Edition: Paperback original
DEWEY: 892.737
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 289
Weight: 280g
Height: 206mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 20mm