Menorahs and Minarets
ISBN 978-9774168314 | |
Menorahs and Minarets: A Novel is a 2017 book by Egyptian author Kamal Ruhayyim.
It constitutes the third part of the "Galal trilogy", dealing with the life of Galal, an Egyptian man with a Muslim father and a Jewish mother. After residing a decade in Paris, he returns to Cairo in the 1970s, where he faces the fact that he no longer belongs to his old Egyptian home.[1][2]
This book was translated into English by
AUC Press.[3]
References
- ^ Menorahs and Minarets
- ^ Marcia Lynx Qualey, "The unchangeable past" (review of Menorahs and Minarets), Qantara, 2017.
- ^ Kamal Ruhayyim bio at Hoopoe.