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Excerpt “If you think Cairo’s any better, my dear, you’re mistaken.” Yitzhak Gormezano Goren August 12, 2015
Nonfiction The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman
Essay My Name is Yusha Josh Weil, author of the recently published The Great Glass Sea, is blogging here today for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.Any run-in with… Josh Weil July 8, 2014
Essay The Champagne Spy Nicholas Kulish is an author and correspondent for The New York Times. His most recent book, The Eternal Nazi, co-authored with Souad Mekhennet, is the story of Nazi… Nicholas Kulish June 9, 2014
Essay The Journey Back Juliana Maio was born in Egypt, but expelled from the country with her family during the Suez Crisis. She was raised in France, completed her higher education in the… Juliana Maio April 2, 2014
Nonfiction The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus From Old Cairo to the New World Lucette Lagnado
Nonfiction The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn Lucette Lagnado
