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No One Sleeps in Alexandria
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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.

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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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