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50 Must-Read Books by Egyptian Writers

When kids are exposed to Egyptian books in English, it's mostly mummies and pharaohs. For adults, it's mostly Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.
But Egyptian literature has a tremendously rich and varied history: of cookbooks and crime novels, satire and sci fi, dystopias, and dramas. This list of 50 barely begins to poke at the surface. And it doesn't even talk Egyptian literature for young people!
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Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook (Nawal Nasrallah)
Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook
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Nawal Nasrallah
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One (Yusuf Al-Shirbini)
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
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Yusuf Al-Shirbini
The Essential Tawfiq Al-Hakim (Tawfiq Al-Hakim)
The Essential Tawfiq Al-Hakim
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Tawfiq Al-Hakim
The Days (Taha Hussein)
The Days
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Taha Hussein
Call of the Curlew
Call of the Curlew
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Miramar (Naguib Mahfouz)
Miramar
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Naguib Mahfouz
The Cairo Trilogy (Naguib Mahfouz)
The Cairo Trilogy
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Naguib Mahfouz
The Search: Personal Papers (Latifa Al-Zayyat)
The Search: Personal Papers
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Latifa Al-Zayyat
The Open Door (Latifa Al-Zayat)
The Open Door
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Latifa Al-Zayat
The Man Who Lost His Shadow: A Novel in Four Books (Fathy Ghanem)
The Man Who Lost His Shadow: A Novel in Four Books
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Fathy Ghanem
The Essential Yusuf Idris: Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story (Yusuf Idris)
The Essential Yusuf Idris: Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story
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Yusuf Idris
Distant View of a Minaret (Alifa Rifat)
Distant View of a Minaret
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Alifa Rifat
War in the Land of Egypt (Yusuf Al-Qa'id)
War in the Land of Egypt
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Yusuf Al-Qa'id
The Granada Trilogy (Radwa Ashour)
The Granada Trilogy
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Radwa Ashour
Siraaj (Radwa Ashour)
Siraaj
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Radwa Ashour
The Journey: Memoirs of an Egyptian Woman Student in America (Radwa Ashour)
The Journey: Memoirs of an Egyptian Woman Student in America
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Radwa Ashour
Stealth
Stealth
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The Committee
The Committee
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Beer in the Snooker Club (Waguih Ghali)
Beer in the Snooker Club
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Waguih Ghali
The Stillborn: Notebooks of a Woman From the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt (Arwa Salih)
The Stillborn: Notebooks of a Woman From the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt
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Arwa Salih
The Heron (Ibrahim Aslan)
The Heron
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Ibrahim Aslan
Houses Behind the Trees (Mohamed El-Bisatie)
Houses Behind the Trees
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Mohamed El-Bisatie
The Golden Chariot (Salwa Bakr)
The Golden Chariot
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Salwa Bakr
Zayni Barakat
Zayni Barakat
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The Other Place
The Other Place
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Khatt: Egypt's Calligraphic Landscape (Basma Hamdy (Editor), Noha Zayed (Photographer))
Khatt: Egypt's Calligraphic Landscape
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Basma Hamdy (Editor), Noha Zayed (Photographer)
The Collar and the Bracelet (Yahya Taher)
The Collar and the Bracelet
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Yahya Taher
Moon Over Samarqand (Mohamed Mansi Qandil)
Moon Over Samarqand
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Mohamed Mansi Qandil
The Tent (Miral Al-Tahawy)
The Tent
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Miral Al-Tahawy
Tales From Dayrut: Egyptian Stories (Mohamed Mustagab)
Tales From Dayrut: Egyptian Stories
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Mohamed Mustagab
A Border Passage (Leila Ahmed)
A Border Passage
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Leila Ahmed
The Jokers
The Jokers
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Utopia (Ahmed Khaled Towfik)
Utopia
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Ahmed Khaled Towfik
These Are Not Oranges, My Love (Iman Mersal)
These Are Not Oranges, My Love
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Iman Mersal
Memories of a Meltdown: An Egyptian Between Moscow and Chernobyl (Mohamed Makhzangi)
Memories of a Meltdown: An Egyptian Between Moscow and Chernobyl
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Mohamed Makhzangi
Tales of Yusuf Tadros: A Novel (Adel Esmat)
Tales of Yusuf Tadros: A Novel
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Adel Esmat
Fugitive Suns: Selected Poetry (Andree Chedid)
Fugitive Suns: Selected Poetry
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Andree Chedid
In the Spider's Room (Mohammed Abdel Nabi)
In the Spider's Room
38
Mohammed Abdel Nabi
The Law of Inheritance (Yasser Abdellatif)
The Law of Inheritance
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Yasser Abdellatif
Tahrir Tales: Plays From the Egyptian Revolution (Mohammed Albakry (Editor), Rebekah Maggor (Editor)
Tahrir Tales: Plays From the Egyptian Revolution
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Mohammed Albakry (Editor), Rebekah Maggor (Editor
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