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Playing Cards In Cairo

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Playing Cards In Cairo

by Hugh Miles

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Synopsis

Recently installed in Cairo as a freelance journalist and expat barfly, Hugh Miles soon meets and falls in love with Roda, a beautiful Egyptian doctor, who introduces him to Egypt s favourite pastime, the card game tarneeb, to her all-female card circle, and to a previously unseen side of life in the Middle East s greatest city. While the women cut and shuffle, Miles listens to their stories and learns about what it means to be a young Muslim woman, dating, dieting and divorcing in a country where traditional Islamic values are in the ascendant. Yosra struggles with an addiction to prescription drugs; Nadia copes with a baby and an abusive husband; neighbour Reem comes to terms with plastic surgery gone wrong; while her sister attempts to conceal her secret love-marriage from her family and to breathe life into a clothes shop run by a regime apparatchik with an Islamist vision of retail. Hugh Miles takes a fascinating sideways look at the lives of young Egyptians, and finds himself on a romantic adventure that will lead him to Islam and bind him to the Arab world for ever.

Product details

ISBN:
9780349119793
Category:
General
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2008-04-03
Publisher:
Abacus
Country of origin:
GBR
Pages:
288
Pagination:
288 pages
Dimensions (mm):
233 x 154 x 22
Weight:
384g

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