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• Author gained international renown after publication of Zayni Barakat • , the historical novel set in Mamluk Egypt.
• Regarded as one of Egypt’s greatest modern writers.
• Literary memoir rather than linear account of Ghitani’s life
• Language is lyrical, meditative. Content on memory, regret, confession, old age, has universal appeal.
© 2020 The American University in Cairo Press (Ebook): 9781617979750
Translators: Nader K. Uthman
Release date
Ebook: April 14, 2020
Biographies
• Author gained international renown after publication of Zayni Barakat • , the historical novel set in Mamluk Egypt.
• Regarded as one of Egypt’s greatest modern writers.
• Literary memoir rather than linear account of Ghitani’s life
• Language is lyrical, meditative. Content on memory, regret, confession, old age, has universal appeal.
© 2020 The American University in Cairo Press (Ebook): 9781617979750
Translators: Nader K. Uthman
Release date
Ebook: April 14, 2020
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