The Cairo House

Samia Serageldin

first published 2000 Syracuse University Press, 2000 233 pages

Arab American writing

"Gihan, the daughter of a politically prominent, land-owning Egyptian family, witnesses the changes sweeping her homeland. As she looks back to the glamorous Egypt of the pashas and King Faruk, she moves forward to the police state of the colonels who seized power in 1952 and the disastrous consequences of Nasser's sequestration policies.". "Through well-chosen portraits and telling descriptions of the era's fashion...

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Cairo House edition · 2011 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007396207
The Cairo House paperback · 2005 · HarperPerennial · 320 pages · 9780007182183
The Cairo House hardcover · 2004 · Fourth Estate · 320 pages · 9780007182169
The Cairo House edition · 2000 · Syracuse University Press · 233 pages

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