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john25, could you please stop posting "useless 4 words responses" on all the discussions?

Thanks

Right now I'm reading "Taxi" by Khaled Al Khamissi. About past and modern Cairo life from cab drivers point of view. I am really enjoying this.

hiiii sofie firstly you should determine if you want to read an arabic or english book , i don't know how much you can deal with arabic,secondly if you want to knkow the egypttion history from arabic sources i'll guide you to the way most of the intellectual egyption take....in in egypt we a reading initiative sponsors by the first lady of egypt by the name "reading for all",it offers a variety of books in art ,science,poetry,novels,history and translated books from foriegn sources every week you can find new books with cheap price.
and if you are looking for english books about the history of egypt i think you can look for it in the auc at first you will find what you need and there are other sources such as AL SHOURUK liberary, DIWAN book store and VEGGINE MEGA STORE in city stars mall
even i want to talk to you about the egyptien people if you don't know them ...actually egyption people adopted tolerence ,co-existence,respecting others and modernity and that's why we find many americans marry from egyptiens,but that's not because i'm egyptien that's the fact EGYPT is the first centralized ruling system in the history more than 5000 years earlier and EGYPT has agreat religious role because of AL AZHAR THE FIRST ISLAMIC WNIVERCITY and THE EGYPTIEN CHURCH one  the oldest church in the world ...so that's alittle profile about our history   and i wish you spend a good time in EGYPT.

tamitmrteka wrote:

"Whatever happened to the Egyptians" and "Whatever else happened to the Egyptians" were interesting. The author compared his mothers life to his daughters modern life and so on.
Consequences of love by Sulaiman Addonia was quite a shock for me but very interesting. Also my hubby suggested to read the 1000 splendid suns but i still haven't read, and i don't want to read because it has a sad ending.
What is Fatwa about? Is it Fatwa: living with a death threat? Sounds very sad. Does anyone can suggest a nice book but without sad ending? It can be a historical romance book or a detective novel with a oriental style. Something fresh not ordinary?
I heard Safarli Elchin is a very famous oriental author, but cannot find his books.

Thanx for this feedback....i like the sound of all ...especailly 1000 splendid suns,
I have only heard of that one and forgot all about it .. until you mentioned it.
Thanx again for your suggestions,
Regards Sofie

mohamedsayed38 wrote:

hiiii sofie firstly you should determine if you want to read an arabic or english book , i don't know how much you can deal with arabic,secondly if you want to knkow the egypttion history from arabic sources i'll guide you to the way most of the intellectual egyption take....in in egypt we a reading initiative sponsors by the first lady of egypt by the name "reading for all",it offers a variety of books in art ,science,poetry,novels,history and translated books from foriegn sources every week you can find new books with cheap price.
and if you are looking for english books about the history of egypt i think you can look for it in the auc at first you will find what you need and there are other sources such as AL SHOURUK liberary, DIWAN book store and VEGGINE MEGA STORE in city stars mall
even i want to talk to you about the egyptien people if you don't know them ...actually egyption people adopted tolerence ,co-existence,respecting others and modernity and that's why we find many americans marry from egyptiens,but that's not because i'm egyptien that's the fact EGYPT is the first centralized ruling system in the history more than 5000 years earlier and EGYPT has agreat religious role because of AL AZHAR THE FIRST ISLAMIC WNIVERCITY and THE EGYPTIEN CHURCH one  the oldest church in the world ...so that's alittle profile about our history   and i wish you spend a good time in EGYPT.

Thanx for your indepth information on which books i should read .
I can't read arabic, so the books will have to be in english .
And yes i will look in the stores that you have mentioned above
Regards Sofie

Aykalam wrote:

Right now I'm reading "Taxi" by Khaled Al Khamissi. About past and modern Cairo life from cab drivers point of view. I am really enjoying this.

WoW Thanx for this ...i can imagine this will be a very accurate and indepth.insight to the how Cairo is really seen thru the eyes of a cab driver ...and i bet there are some really hilarious parts in the book
thanx again
Sofie

U can have a look at AUC library down town Tahrir
I Have a 15-20% on the boos from there
There is a section for Cairo Books

Veggine sounds like something Borat says!

I also intend to read 'Taxi'  thanks for this one!

Why 1000 splendid suns??? It's set in Afghanistan. That's like saying "Your're going to America, so here's a book on Australia, it's sort of similar, so that should do it!"

Samuel Longhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, wrote a lot on Egypt in the mid to late 1800s and it makes interesting (and often comical) reading.  As I understand it he lived here in Cairo for some time.  You can find a bunch of info using a search engine like google, including the names of his books.  I saw a couple of his books in a bookstore on road 9 the other day so they're still easily available.  Check out the web site

I recommend Libraries located at ZAMALEK.
Good Luck.
Dr. IMIG

A bit of lit:
Chicago and The Yaqoubian Building by Alaa al Aswany
No One Sleeps in Alexandria by Lawrence Durrell
There are female Egyptian writers called Ahdaf Soueif and Nawal al Saadawy...