Naqib's Daughter

Naqib's Daughter
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North Carolina,
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November 11
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Born and raised in Egypt, educated at London University, immigrated to the United States in the eighties. Author of two novels, The Cairo House, about growing up in a political family in Nasser's Egypt, and The Naqib's Daughter, about Bonaparte's occupation of Egypt in 1798. A collection of short stories, Love is Like Water, addresses in part Arab Americans post 9/11. Also published nonfiction on Islam, Egypt, women in Muslim societies, and terrorism. Have taught at university and in journalism. An editor of South Writ Large, an online magazine of stories, arts and ideas from the Global and US Souths.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011 6:11AM

Tahrir Square: the morning after

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Thsi Sunday morning, heavy traffic circumventing about twenty armored tanks lining the Corniche along the Radio and Television Building, some say to prevent a coup within the army itself. People scanning the newspapers to gage who is dictating the headlines now. Speculation: one of two Nobel Prize winners, Baradei or Zuweil, Arab League chief Amre Moussa, or a military man in civilian clothes, as it has been since 1952? Taxi driver wisdom turns out to be near ubiquitous but breathtakingly wrong: that Baradei is an American agent (the man who stood up to Bush-Cheney pressure to declare weapons of mass destruction in Iraq!)and that although Mubarak and Sadat made billions, Nasser died with 65 LE in the safe!

Meantime, the January 25th movement vow to keep the pressure up till there is a time frame for lifting emergency laws and dissolving the fraudulent parliament. It’s not over yet. 

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