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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

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#4267 of 8,085 books · #660 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize (2022).

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants "returning" to a country she's never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire—for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other—takes a violent turn that neither of them expected.

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Publisher
Graywolf Press
ISBN-13
9781644451717
Topics
Diaspora and identityToxic love and power dynamicsAftermath of the Arab Spring

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