Ruhayyim Kamal - Diary Of A Jewish Muslim A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Diary Of A Jewish Muslim A Novel
Author(s): Ruhayyim Kamal
Publisher: The American University In Cairo Press
Barcode: 9789774168413
Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/4/2018
Category: Fiction In Translation