Calcutta. Seagull Books. 2024. 312 pages.Some years ago, one of his compatriots approvingly described Gamal Abdel Nasser to me as “the first Egyptian to rule Egypt since Cleopatra.” L…
Sonallah Ibrahim
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2021. 376 pages. MANY OF SONALLAH IBRAHIM’S novels explore how former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser’s version of socialism was…
London. Seagull Books. 2019. 303 pages. IN 2016 I CHATTED with Sonallah Ibrahim about his then-new novel, Berlin 69, published in Arabic in 2014.…
