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by Samia Serageldin


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Samia Serageldin's heroine, the daughter of a politically prominent, land-owning Egyptian family, witnesses the changes sweeping her homeland. Looking back to the glamorous Egypt of the pashas and King Faruk, Serageldin 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 fashions and furnishings, Serageldin conveys detailed social and cultural information. She offers a glimpse of the beach at Agami in the 1960s and conveys the change in mood through the Sadat years. Serageldin's fictional treatment of recent Egyptian history includes key events leading to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, such as the assassination of writer Yussef Siba'yi and the harassment of theologian Nasr Abu Zayd.
Serageldin's heroine goes into exile in Europe and the United States but returns to Egypt in an attempt to reconcile her past and present. Charting fresh territory for the American reader, this semi-autobiographical novel is one of the most sensitive and accessible documents of historical change in Egyptian life. The book will appeal to a general audience and will be particularly useful to students interested in the social customs of the upper class in Egypt in the Nasser and Sadat years.

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  • Title The Cairo House
  • Author Samia Serageldin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition: 200
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY
  • Date 2000-09-01
  • ISBN 9780815606734 / 0815606737
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.3 x 0.96 in (23.67 x 16.00 x 2.44 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Cultural Region: East Africa
    • Cultural Region: North Africa
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Autobiographical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00030088
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2000, Page 2112
  • Choice, 04/01/2001, Page 1465
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2000, Page 1316
  • Library Journal, 10/01/2000, Page 148

About the author

Samia Serageldin was raised trilingual in Egypt, pursued graduate studies at London University, where she earned her MS in Politics, and immigrated to the United States in the eighties. She is also the author of The Naqib's Daughter and Love is Like Water and Other Stories.
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