In the first part of the book, Talib traces the history of maqati, a highly popular genre of Arabic poetry prevalent from 1200 to 1900. He describes and explains the genre's features, its operation
A serious comic novel from the award-winning author of The Lodging House.Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of fashionable downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gathers regularly t
Cairo, Mother of the World, embraces millions-but some of her children make their home in the streets, junked up and living in the shadows of wealth and among the monuments that the tourists flock to
?Sarmada, Arabic for perpetuate or the eternally-not-changed, is the novel's fictitious setting. In the title, Fadi Azzam creates a new word (a derivative female form of noun-verb, which does not exis
