Menorahs and Minarets
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Menorahs and Minarets: A Novel is a 2017 book by Egyptian author Kamal Ruhayyim.
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Author | Kamal Ruhayyim |
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Translator | Sarah Enany |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical Fiction |
Publisher | Hoopoe |
Publication date | 2017 |
Pages | 264 |
ISBN | 978-9774168314 |
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It constitutes the third part of the "Galal trilogy", dealing with the life of Galal, an Egyptian man with a Muslim father and a Jewish mother. After residing a decade in Paris, he returns to Cairo in the 1970s, where he faces the fact that he no longer belongs to his old Egyptian home.[1][2]
This book was translated into English by Sarah Enany and published by AUC Press.[3]