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Playing Cards In Cairo
Hugh Miles

Playing Cards In Cairo

Abacus (Apr 03, 2008)
9780349119793
| Paperback
288 pages | 152 x 229 mm
Dewey 305.486970962
LC Classification PN5463.M55 .A3 2008
LC Control No. 2009358930

Genre

  • Geography & History

Subject

  • Journalists - Biography. - Egypt
  • Muslim Women - Social Conditions. - Egypt
  • Muslim Women - Social Life And Customs. - Egypt

Plot

PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment. Hugh Miles lives in Cairo and is engaged to an Egyptian woman. Twice a week he plays cards with a small group of Arab, Muslim women and through this medium he explores their lives in modern Cairo, the greatest of Arab cities. It is a secretive, romantic, often deprived but always soulful existence for the women as they struggle with abusive husbands and philandering boyfriends.

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