Diary of a Jewish Muslim

Egyptian Muslims and Jews were not always at odds. Before the Arab-Israeli wars, before the mass exodus of Jews from Egypt, there was harmony. Spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, this sweeping novel accompanies Galal, a young boy with a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, through his childhood and boyhood in a vibrant popular quarter of Cairo. With his schoolboy crushes and teen rebellions, Galal is deeply Egyptian, knit tightly into the middle-class fabric of manners, morals, and traditions that cheerfully incorporates and transcends religion--a fabric about to be torn apart by a bigger world of politics that will put Galal's very identity to the test.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hoopoe
Published: 09/04/2018
ISBN: 9789774168413
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.40d