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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 (Nawal Nasrallah)
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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 (Yusuf Al-Shirbini)
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The Essential Tawfiq Al-Hakim (Tawfiq Al-Hakim)
The Essential Tawfiq Al-Hakim (Tawfiq Al-Hakim)
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The Days (Taha Hussein)
The Days (Taha Hussein)
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Call of the Curlew
Call of the Curlew
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Miramar (Naguib Mahfouz)
Miramar (Naguib Mahfouz)
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The Cairo Trilogy (Naguib Mahfouz)
The Cairo Trilogy (Naguib Mahfouz)
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The Search: Personal Papers (Latifa Al-Zayyat)
The Search: Personal Papers (Latifa Al-Zayyat)
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The Open Door (Latifa Al-Zayat)
The Open Door (Latifa Al-Zayat)
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The Man Who Lost His Shadow: A Novel in Four Books (Fathy Ghanem)
The Man Who Lost His Shadow: A Novel in Four Books (Fathy Ghanem)
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The Essential Yusuf Idris: Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story (Yusuf Idris)
The Essential Yusuf Idris: Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story (Yusuf Idris)
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Distant View of a Minaret (Alifa Rifat)
Distant View of a Minaret (Alifa Rifat)
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War in the Land of Egypt (Yusuf Al-Qa'id)
War in the Land of Egypt (Yusuf Al-Qa'id)
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The Granada Trilogy (Radwa Ashour)
The Granada Trilogy (Radwa Ashour)
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Siraaj (Radwa Ashour)
Siraaj (Radwa Ashour)
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The Journey: Memoirs of an Egyptian Woman Student in America (Radwa Ashour)
The Journey: Memoirs of an Egyptian Woman Student in America (Radwa Ashour)
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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 (Waguih Ghali)
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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 (Arwa Salih)
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The Heron (Ibrahim Aslan)
The Heron (Ibrahim Aslan)
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Houses Behind the Trees (Mohamed El-Bisatie)
Houses Behind the Trees (Mohamed El-Bisatie)
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The Golden Chariot (Salwa Bakr)
The Golden Chariot (Salwa Bakr)
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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 (Basma Hamdy (Editor), Noha Zayed (Photographer))
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The Collar and the Bracelet (Yahya Taher)
The Collar and the Bracelet (Yahya Taher)
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Moon Over Samarqand (Mohamed Mansi Qandil)
Moon Over Samarqand (Mohamed Mansi Qandil)
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The Tent (Miral Al-Tahawy)
The Tent (Miral Al-Tahawy)
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Tales From Dayrut: Egyptian Stories (Mohamed Mustagab)
Tales From Dayrut: Egyptian Stories (Mohamed Mustagab)
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A Border Passage (Leila Ahmed)
A Border Passage (Leila Ahmed)
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The Jokers
The Jokers
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Utopia (Ahmed Khaled Towfik)
Utopia (Ahmed Khaled Towfik)
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These Are Not Oranges, My Love (Iman Mersal)
These Are Not Oranges, My Love (Iman Mersal)
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Memories of a Meltdown: An Egyptian Between Moscow and Chernobyl (Mohamed Makhzangi)
Memories of a Meltdown: An Egyptian Between Moscow and Chernobyl (Mohamed Makhzangi)
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Tales of Yusuf Tadros: A Novel (Adel Esmat)
Tales of Yusuf Tadros: A Novel (Adel Esmat)
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Fugitive Suns: Selected Poetry (Andree Chedid)
Fugitive Suns: Selected Poetry (Andree Chedid)
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In the Spider's Room (Mohammed Abdel Nabi)
In the Spider's Room (Mohammed Abdel Nabi)
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The Law of Inheritance (Yasser Abdellatif)
The Law of Inheritance (Yasser Abdellatif)
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Tahrir Tales: Plays From the Egyptian Revolution (Mohammed Albakry (Editor), Rebekah Maggor (Editor)
Tahrir Tales: Plays From the Egyptian Revolution (Mohammed Albakry (Editor), Rebekah Maggor (Editor)
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