Readings from literary works that re-construct and re-map the city of Cairo

Samia Mehrez is professor of Arabic literature in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilization and director of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in Cairo. She is the author of Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim, and Gamal al-Ghitani (AUC Press, pb edition 2005) and Egypt's Culture Wars: Politics and Practice.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cairo Mother of Cities
1. Prelude: Entering the City Victorious
Muhammad al-Muwailihi, A Period of Time: A Study and Translation of Hadith 'Isa ibn Hisham
Naguib Mahfouz, Children of the Alley
Khairy Shalaby, The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles
and Sweets
2. Mapping Cairo 25
Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley
Naguib Mahfouz, Khan al-Khalili
Ismail Wali al-Din, Hammam al-Malatili
Mahmoud Al-Wardani, Heads Ripe for Plucking
Yahya Hakki, The Lamp of Umm Hashim
Muhammad Galal, Mounira Days
May al-Telmissany, Heliopolis
Nabil Naoum Gorgy, Cairo Is a Small City
Radwa Ashour, A Piece of Europe
Midhat Gazalé, Pyramids Road
Chafika Hamamsy, Zamalek: The Changing Life of a Cairo Elite, 1850-1945
Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley
Yusuf Idris, The Siren
Khairy Shalaby, Wedding Thief
Sonallah Ibrahim, Sharaf
Yasser Abdel-Latif, The Law of Inheritance
May Khaled, The Last Seat in Ewart Hall
Radwa Ashour, A Piece of Europe
Ibrahim Farghali, The Smiles of the Saints
Naim Sabri, District Seven
M.M. Tawfik, Murder in the Tower of Happiness
Mustafa Zikri, What Amin Did Not Know
Yusuf Idris, The Dregs of the City
Ibrahim Aslan, The Heron
Hani Abdel-Mourid, Kyrie Eleison
Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Thieves in Retirement
Gamal al-Ghitani, The Guardian of the Shrine
Salwa Bakr, Thirty-one Beautiful Green Trees
Shehata al-Erian, The Women of Others
Hamdy al-Gazzar, Black Magic
Omar Taher, Looks Like It's Busted
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, Utopia
Ibrahim Issa, Nationalist Ghosts
3. Public Spaces 151
Gamal al-Ghitani, Pyramid Texts
Sonallah Ibrahim, Cairo from Edge to Edge
Ismail Wali al-Din, Hammam al-Malatili
Naguib Mahfouz, Khan al-Khalili
Yusuf al-Sibaie, We Do Not Cultivate Thorns
Anne-Marie Drosso, Cairo Stories
Muhammad al-Fakharani, An Interval for Bewilderment
Robert Solé, Birds of Passage
Ihsan Abdel Quddus, Let the Sun Shine
Hala El Badry, Swimming in a Hole
Ihab Abdel Hamid, Failed Lovers
Mahmoud Al-Wardani, Mall Music
Khaled Al Khamissi, Taxi
Waguih Ghali, Beer in the Snooker Club
Sonallah Ibrahim, Cairo from Edge to Edge
Naguib Mahfouz, The Day the Leader Was Killed
Miral al-Tahawy, Blue Aubergine
Ahmed Mourad, Vertigo
Ahmed Alaidy, Being Abbas el Abd
Muhammad Salah al-Azab, Frequent Stops
4. Private Spaces
Hassan Hassan, In the House of Muhammad Ali: A Family Album, 1805-1952
Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk
Samia Serageldin, The Cairo House
Andrée Chedid, From Sleep Unbound
Yusuf al-Sibaie, We Do Not Cultivate Thorns
Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz, Palace of Desire
Albert Cossery, Proud Beggars
Amina al-Said, The End of the Road: A Real-life Tragedy
Bahaa Taher, The Drop of Light
Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building
Sonallah Ibrahim, Zaat
Mekkawi Said, Cairo Swan Song
M.M. Tawfik, Murder in the Tower of Happiness
Shehata al-Erian, The Women of Others
Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Thieves in Retirement
Hani Abdel-Mourid, Kyrie Eleison
5. On the Move in Cairo
Taha Hussein, A Man of Letters
Tharwat Abaza, Fog
Ihsan Abdel Quddus, I Am Free
Salwa Bakr, Rabbits
Raouf Mosad, Ithaca
Sahar al-Mougy, N
Khaled Al Khamissi, Taxi
Ahmed Alaidy, Being Abbas el Abd
Mona Prince, Today I'm Gonna Pamper Myself
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