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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1)
by Naguib Mahfouz
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The master work by the 1988 Nobel Prize winner in literature, this stunning book, which introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1990s, is "a majestic and capacious accomplishment"... (read more)

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The Beginning and the End
by Naguib Mahfouz
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by Etgar Keret
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The Proof of the Honey
by Salwa Al Neimi
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Against Gravity
by Farnoosh Moshiri
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That Smell and Notes from Prison
by Sonallah Ibrahim
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