Eschewing stereotypes of the Middle Eastern male, Atiya focuses on five men (given pseudonyms), whose stories reveal cultural subtleties and reflect their communities. She spotlights an Egyptian Copti
Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a business- man, and a production manager. Through person
As I was coming up, it was painful to me not to have been given my own nickname. It made me feel different, or rather that I was being treated differently from other family members. I wondered why eve
Out el Kouloub (1899-1968) fled Cairo after the 1952 revolution and wrote five books in French, this one published as Trois contes de l'amour et da la mort by Editions Correa in 1940. It portrays li
