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The Lamp of Umm Hashim
Yahya Haqqi
1944
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A doctor back from Europe is torn between science and popular faith.
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A refined stylist and one of the fathers of the Egyptian novella. The Lamp of Umm Hashim is a classic tale of the clash between Western science and Eastern faith.
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