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100 1 _aSaid, Mekkawi
245 1 0 _aCairo Swan Song
_cMekkawi Said; Adam Talib
264 0 _aCairo
_bHoopoe
_c2020
264 0 _aLa Vergne
_bThe American University in Cairo Press
_c2019
300 _a316 pages
_c22 سم
336 _aنص
337 _aبدون وسيط
338 _aكتاب
500 _aIn the shadows of great wealth, and among Cairo's famous monuments, runs a world of street children. Mustafa, a former student radical who never really believed in the slogans, sets out to tell their story through a documentary he is making with his American girlfriend, Marcia. Alienated from a corrupt and corrupting society, Mustafa watches as the Cairo he cherishes crumbles around him. His former leftist comrades are now all either capitalists or Islamists, while his friends and acquaintances struggle to find lovers worthy of their love and causes worthy of their sacrifice, in a country that
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650 0 1 _aPolitical science -- Fiction
651 0 _aCairo (Egypt) -- Politics and government -- Fiction
651 0 _aCairo (Egypt) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
700 1 _aTalib, Adam
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