Diary of a Jewish Muslim
(2014)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781617978906 (electronic bk.) MWT12372088, 1617978906 (electronic bk.) 12372088
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
Mode of access: World Wide Web