Man from Bashmour
A TOP 100 LITERARY WORK OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (THE ARAB WRITERS UNION)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAIF GHOBASH-BANIPAL PRIZE FOR LITERARY TRANSLATION
A historical novel of social strife in medieval Egypt
Egypt in the ninth century ad: an Arab, Muslim ruling class governs a country of mostly Coptic-speaking Christians. After an exorbitant land tax imposed by the caliph’s governors sparks a peasant revolt,...
A TOP 100 LITERARY WORK OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (THE ARAB WRITERS UNION)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAIF GHOBASH-BANIPAL PRIZE FOR LITERARY TRANSLATION
A historical novel of social strife in medieval Egypt
Egypt in the ninth century ad: an Arab, Muslim ruling class governs a country of mostly Coptic-speaking Christians. After an exorbitant land tax imposed by the caliph’s governors sparks a peasant revolt,...
