Diary of a Jewish Muslim: An Egyptian Novel
of Kamal Ruhayyim (Goodreads Author), Sarah Enany (Translation)
Series: Jewish Muslim #1
Description
Egyptian Muslims and Jews were not always at odds. Before the Arab-Israeli wars, before the mass exodus of Jews from Egypt after the pogroms and anti-Semitism of '30s and '40s, threats of death to '100,000 children", and the bombings and riots aganst the Jews in 1948, there had been harmony.Offering an intimate yet panoramic view of the easy coexistence of Muslims, Jews, and Christians in an old neighborhood of Cairo, this sweeping yet personal novel, spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, accompanies Galal, a young boy with a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, through his childhood and boyhood in the vibrant popular quarter of Daher. With his schoolboy crushes and teen rebellions, Galal is deeply Egyptian, knit tightly with his mother, father, and grandfather in old Cairo-a middle-class social fabric of manners and morals, values and traditions that cheerfully incorporates and as cheerfully transcends religion, but a fabric that is about to be torn apart by a bigger world of politics that will also put Galal's very identity to the test.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 248 pages
- Publisher American University in Cairo Press
- Publication Date September 15th 2014
- First Publication 05/15/14
- Language English
- ISBN 9789774166433
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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