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No One Sleeps in Alexandria
Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
1996
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Alexandria and its ordinary people during World War II.
Why this book matters
The chronicler of cosmopolitan Alexandria. This Naguib Mahfouz Medal novel weaves the friendship of a Muslim and a Copt with the roar of world war at the city's walls — a portrait of a vanished multilingual world.
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