Egypt – Christine's Book Reviews

A SHORT HISTORY OF DRUNKENNESS by MARK FORSYTH

christine 2017 / History / Non Fiction / Reviews 29 April 2020 10 May 2020 4 Comments

I have come very late to the Mark Forsyth Fan Club, but I am already a fully-paid up member. Mr. Forsyth showed us just how formidably clever and witty he is in The Etymologican – my first review of 2020, incidentally. “The Etymologican” is all about words and is an …

THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING by ALAA AL ASWANEY

christine 2002 / Europe & the Middle East / Fiction 16 February 2012 18 May 2020 Leave a comment

Alaa Al Aswany’s novel, “The Yacoubian Building” is an endearing tale of life in Cairo, in the period of political and religious turmoil during the first Gulf War. The famous, formerly elegant Yacoubian Building is now a tad run down, and home to a host of characters, some of whom …