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Menorahs and Minarets
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Wikipedia article
'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.[https://hoopoefiction.com/book/menorahs-and-minarets/ 'Menorahs and Minarets']Marcia Lynx Qualey, [https://en.qantara.de/content/book-review-kamal-ruhayyims-menorahs-and-minarets-the-unchangeable-past "The unchangeable past"] (review of 'Menorahs and Minarets'), 'Qantara', 2017.
This book was translated into English by Sarah Enany and published by AUC Press.[https://hoopoefiction.com/hoopoe-author/kamal-ruhayyim/ Kamal Ruhayyim bio] at Hoopoe.
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Category:2017 novels
Category:Egyptian novels
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