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Laugh like an Egyptian

Author : Cristina Dozio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110725517
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Laugh like an Egyptian written by Cristina Dozio and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awlād al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at the literary expression of Egyptian humour in the novels of Muḥammad Mustajāb, Khayrī Shalabī, and Ḥamdī Abū Julayyil, three writers who revive the comic tradition to innovate the language of contemporary fiction. Their modern tricksters, wise fools, and antiheroes play with the stereotypical traits attached to the ordinary Egyptians, while laughing at the universal contradictions of life. This ability to combine local and global culture, literary traditions and popular references, makes them a stimulating read in an intercultural perspective. Combining humour studies and literary criticism, this book examines language play and narrative creativity to understand which strategies craft Egyptian literary humour. In doing so, it sheds light on the contribution of humour to literary innovations of Egyptian fiction since the late Seventies, while adding new writers to those who are considered the masters of humour in the Arab novel.

Walking Like An Egyptian

Author : Jack Dash
Publisher : Jack Dash
ISBN 13 : 1311328939
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Walking Like An Egyptian written by Jack Dash and published by Jack Dash. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the hustler’s paradise of pre-revolution Egypt comes an eccentric Englishman hell bent on making his fortune in a country where everything is late, nothing works and everyone is on the take. To pay off a savage mortgage, he leads a double life teaching in a posh school by day and haggling down the back streets of Cairo by night, trying to beat those wily Egyptians at their own game.

Laughing Matters

Author : Giorgio Baruchello
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110760177
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Laughing Matters by : Giorgio Baruchello

Download or read book Laughing Matters written by Giorgio Baruchello and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book addresses the background, rationale, general structure, and particular aims and arguments characterizing our third and last volume about "humor" and "cruelty". A guiding foray is provided into the vast expert literature that can be retrieved in the Western humanities and social sciences on these two terms. Pivotal thinkers and crucial notions are duly identified, highlighted, and examined. Apposite subsidiary references are also included, especially with regard to psychodynamics and clinical psychology, existentialism, feminism, liberalism, Marxism, and representative recent studies in the philosophy of humor and its cognates. The stage is thus set for the exploration and assessment of the conflicts between humor and cruelty unfolding in Part 2 of Volume 3. Being the philosophical terminus of our entire research project, Volume 3 counterbalances, complements, and, occasionally, complexifies the numerous forms of mutual cooperation between humor and cruelty that the preceding Volume 2 had unearthed and discussed.

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Author : Noor Naga
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451719
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English written by Noor Naga and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Shortlisted for the 2022 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants “returning” to a country she’s never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire—for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other—takes a violent turn that neither of them expected. A dark romance exposing the gaps in American identity politics, especially when exported overseas, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English is at once ravishing and wry, scathing and tender. Told in alternating perspectives, Noor Naga’s experimental debut examines the ethics of fetishizing the homeland and punishing the beloved . . . and vice versa. In our globalized twenty-first-century world, what are the new faces (and races) of empire? When the revolution fails, how long can someone survive the disappointment? Who suffers and, more crucially, who gets to tell about it?

The Egyptian Princess

Author : Jane Waller
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728398630
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Egyptian Princess written by Jane Waller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Phillips, the time-traveller from Saving the Dinosaurs, now 13, is sent back 5,000 years to Ancient Egypt at the time of the Fourth Dynasty. There he finds a world where the wheel has not yet been invented, where only the prayers of the Pharaoh guarantee that the Nile will provide sufficient water for the crops, and where the Sun God, has to travel by boat through the Underworld each night in order to rise in the morning. Shortly after his arrival he is befriended by the Pharaoh’s daughter Mer-tio-tess, who believes he is a Spirit sent to help her. While increasingly attracted towards the Princess he finds himself drawn into a web of power struggles and rivalry. And things get worse when Peter, by accident, brings her back to present-day London, a cold place filled with sad-looking people which, she believes, must be the Underworld.

Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture

Author : Konerding, Peter
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 3863097661
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture written by Konerding, Peter and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian and North African studies. Most of the new research dealing with it concentrates on the ?popular? as opposed to an intellectual ?high? culture far from the harsh and hierarchically organized reality many Arabic-speaking societies face today. Popular cultural practices are thus seen as a rejection of the elite and a stance against those who have ?something to loose? within paralyzed and conservative communities. Albeit not denying the subversive political potential associated with these practices, this volume intends to take a more nuanced and broader perspective. Arabic popular culture might engage with emancipatory claims, but it might as easily follow the capitalist rulebook of global marketing. It might fight against oppressive authorities, yet it can equally become their symbol.0Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture therefore closely looks at the aesthetic implications of a topic ranging from Lebanese hip hop over Algerian pop novels to jihadi chants in the ?Islamic State? as well as from Egyptian mahraganat music over sarcastic stories about hash dens and time travel in downtown Cairo to Saudi-Arabian YouTube-influencers. Thus, the theoretical scope widens and the reader is taken on a delightful journey to the unsettling pleasures of contemporary Arabic art and culture.

Writings from Ancient Egypt

Author : Toby Wilkinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141395966
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Writings from Ancient Egypt written by Toby Wilkinson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered' In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a unique insight into the life of the Egyptian mind. Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson has freshly translated a rich and diverse range of ancient Egyptian writings into modern English, including tales of shipwreck and wonder, obelisk inscriptions, mortuary spells, funeral hymns, songs, satires and advice on life from a pharaoh to his son. Spanning over two millennia, this is the essential guide to a complex, sophisticated culture. Translated with an Introduction by Toby Wilkinson

The Last Egyptian Standing

Author : Mo Nassah
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 146700068X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Last Egyptian Standing written by Mo Nassah and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Egyptian Standing: The Great Egyptian is produced herein as a written format of a story based around real events that took place before, during, and following the Egyptian Revolution in the year 2011. The story is mainly from the eyes and angle of one very special young man. From before the moments of chaos and rioting began and then hit peak, MN80-M. HASSAN THE SPECIAL ONE/MALE finds his spirit suffering between heart and mind whether or not to accept the life as it is in this day and age and continue his chosen normal life, or to just join-in with everyone on and off of the streets of Cairo, the main city in Egypt, during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. At the same time, another window of opportunity opens for the possibility to follow his emotional instincts that have been restraining his heart and mind for such a long time now, especially from before the 25th of January 2011 early start into the Egyptian Revolution. Or, also the simple possibility to just sit back and watch everything un-fold from the Television at home in the United Kingdom. MO NASSAH, born in 1980, has written several unpublished novels and dozens of short stories that until this moment in time, he felt not to publish and share with this World, until now. This story and book herein being the first published book from a set series created and written by the Author MO NASSAH. He said, she said, is exactly what happens in this version/book, and over eighty (80%) percent of this book is a true story. Hence, a reason the words of each character (to the Author) was/is more important for the first book to be written in exactly this way, and/or form, for the reader(s) of each book to truly appreciate, and understand at-least some of that to come in the second, third and fourth book of this part of the entire MN80-M story series starting as, The Last Egyptian Standing: The Great Egyptian. In 2011, MO NASSAH lives alone in his birth place location, the cosmopolitan city of London, England, United Kingdom. From the outspoken and brilliant start until the end of this entire true story, the author allows us the readers to enjoy the read as we enter a new World. A whole new dimension with real life CHARACTERS and personalities that capture the heart of each reader from the very first chapter, when all of the chaos begins, in Egypt. Full of excitement, passion adventure, love, envy, fear, betrayal, success, murder, mystery, fantasy and much much more. As sad, and as happy, as some of these events may be to some, this is a true story, and a part of the History of Mankind now, the History of you, and I. Especially with the main character MN80-M. HASSAN THE AMAZING ONE/MALE alive.

Legends of the Ancient Egyptian Record Keepers

Author : LEARN ALCHEMICAL EDITORS
Publisher : DTTV PUBLICATIONS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Ancient Egyptian Record Keepers written by LEARN ALCHEMICAL EDITORS and published by DTTV PUBLICATIONS. This book was released on with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Book, the tales of the ancient gods of ancient Egypt are told, legends that circulated during the time described by the Egyptians as the "morning of the world," initially carved in stone and preserved on papyrus for millennia until today. In addition to compelling interest in ancient Egypt's religion and culture, this Book also fuels the imagination about the lost knowledge of the Egyptians. Each ancient piece of literature in the Book has notes for the more scientific reader, though it is intended for the layman. A collection of great scholars has translated the origin of the legend, the Book, or the books in which the original may be found, and the papyrus texts into one of the modern languages. Other multitudes of translations are available in specialist libraries; however, many are only helpful to those who study the Egyptian language and literature. The legends are ordered as follows: first, come to the stories of various gods, then Osiris and the deities associated with him, and finally Ra. The myths and the gods that appear in them give you a fascinating picture in your mind.

Revolution for Dummies

Author : Bassem Youssef
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062446916
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Revolution for Dummies written by Bassem Youssef and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn’t take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem.” --Jon Stewart "The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World"—the creator of The Program, the most popular television show in Egypt’s history—chronicles his transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist, and offers crucial insight into the Arab Spring, the Egyptian Revolution, and the turmoil roiling the modern Middle East, all of which inspired the documentary about his life, Tickling Giants. Bassem Youssef’s incendiary satirical news program, Al-Bernameg (The Program), chronicled the events of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, and the rise of Mubarak’s successor, Mohamed Morsi. Youssef not only captured his nation’s dissent but stamped it with his own brand of humorous political criticism, in which the Egyptian government became the prime laughing stock. So potent were Youssef’s skits, jokes, and commentary, the authoritarian government accused him of insulting the Egyptian presidency and Islam. After a six-hour long police interrogation, Youssef was released. While his case was eventually dismissed, his television show was terminated, and Youssef, fearful for his safety, fled his homeland. In Revolution for Dummies, Youssef recounts his life and offers hysterical riffs on the hypocrisy, instability, and corruption that has long animated Egyptian politics. From the attempted cover-up of the violent clashes in Tahrir Square to the government’s announcement that it had created the world’s first "AIDS cure" machine, to the conviction of officials that Youssef was a CIA operative—recruited by Jon Stewart—to bring down the country through sarcasm. There’s much more—and it’s all insanely true. Interweaving the dramatic and inspiring stories of the development of his popular television show and his rise as the most contentious funny-man in Egypt, Youssef’s humorous, fast-paced takes on dictatorship, revolution, and the unforeseeable destiny of democracy in the Modern Middle East offers much needed hope and more than a few healing laughs. A documentary about his life, Tickling Giants, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016, and is now scheduled for major release.

Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt

Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297870637
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt written by Terry Deary and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks? Don't bet your afterlife on it. Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet we still marvel at its mummies and ponder over its pyramids. It's easy to forget these people once lived and laughed, loved and breathed ... though not for very long. These were dangerous days for princes and peasants alike. In Ancient Egypt - a world of wars and woes, poverty and plagues - life was short. Forty was a good age to reach. A pharaoh who was eaten by a hippo ended up as dead as a ditch-digger stung by a scorpion. Unwrap the bandages and you'll find that the Egyptians' bizarre adventures in life were every bit as fascinating as the monuments they left to their deaths.

Queer Things about Egypt

Author : Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Queer Things about Egypt written by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Egyptian Made

Author : Leslie T. Chang
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525509224
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Egyptian Made written by Leslie T. Chang and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive exploration of women and work, showing how globalization’s promise of liberation instead set the stage for repression—from the acclaimed author of Factory Girls “Exhaustively reported and researched, Egyptian Made takes us halfway across the world and inside the intimate lives of women caught between tradition and independence.”—Monica Potts, New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Girls What happens to the women who choose to work in a country struggling to reconcile a traditional culture with the demands of globalization? In this sharply drawn portrait of Egyptian society—deepened by two years of immersive reporting—Leslie T. Chang follows three women as they persevere in a country that throws up obstacles to their progress at every step, from dramatic swings in economic policy to conservative marriage expectations and a failing education system. Working in Egypt’s centuries-old textile industry, Riham is a shrewd businesswoman who nevertheless struggles to attract workers to her garment factory and to compete in the global marketplace. Rania, who works on a factory assembly line, attempts to climb to a management rank but is held back by conflicts with co-workers and the humiliation of an unhappy marriage. Her colleague Doaa, meanwhile, pursues an education and independence but sacrifices access to her own children in order to get a divorce. Alongside these stories, Chang shares her own experiences living and working in Egypt for five years, seeing through her own eyes the risks and prejudices that working women continue to face. She also weaves in the history of Egypt’s vaunted textile industry, its colonization and independence, a century of political upheaval, and the history of Islam in Egypt, all of which shaped the country as it is today and the choices available to Riham, Rania, and Doaa. Following each woman’s story from home and work, Chang powerfully observes the near-impossible balancing act that Egyptian women strike every day.

Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt

Author : L. L. Wynn
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147731704X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt written by L. L. Wynn and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability—and love affairs. Sara, a working-class woman, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant, only to be abandoned by him; Ayah and Zeid, a respectably engaged couple, argue over whether Ayah’s friend is a prostitute or a virgin; Malak, a European belly dancer who sometimes gets paid for sex, wants to be loved by a man who won’t treat her like a whore just because she’s a dancer; and Alia, a Christian banker who left her abusive husband, is the mistress of a wealthy Muslim man, Haroun, who encourages business by hosting risqué parties for other men and their mistresses. Set in transnational Cairo over two decades, Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt is an ethnography that explores female respectability, male honor, and Western theories and fantasies about Arab society. L. L. Wynn uses stories of love affairs to interrogate three areas of classic anthropological theory: mimesis, kinship, and gift. She develops a broad picture of how individuals love and desire within a cultural and political system that structures the possibilities of, and penalties for, going against sexual and gender norms. Wynn demonstrates that love is at once a moral horizon, an attribute that “naturally” inheres in particular social relations, a social phenomenon strengthened through cultural concepts of gift and kinship, and an emotion deeply felt and desired by individuals.

Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins

Author : Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415161975
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins written by Ingvild Sælid Gilhus and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins analyses how laughter has been used as a symbol in myths, rituals and festivals of Western religions, and has thus been inscribed in religious discourse. The Mesopotamian Anu, the Israelite Jahweh, the Greek Dionysos, the Gnostic Christ and the late modern Jesus were all laughing gods. Through their laughter, gods prove both their superiority and their proximity to humans. In this comprehensive study, Professor Gilhus examines the relationship between corporeal human laughter and spiritual divine laughter from c`ussical antiquity, to the Christian West and the modern era. She combines the study of the history of religion with social-scientific approaches, to provide an original and pertinent exploration of a universal human phenomenon, and its significance for the development of religions.

Book of Souls

Author : Nadine Nightingale
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781979087650
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Book of Souls written by Nadine Nightingale and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They call me Angel of Death, but my name is Nisha Blake. I am Shepherdstown's living urban legend. My life, a tale of the macabre. People avoid me like the plague. Well, everyone but my friends. They don't see the Angel of Death when they look at me. They see poor, broken Nisha-the bully victim, suffering from vicious night terrors and vivid hallucinations. Things take a turn for the worse when Blaze shows up. He's a too hot, tattooed, bad-ass MMA fighter from London, hell-bent on getting to know me. Since he walked into my miserable life, my hallucinations graduated to a point where I can no longer differentiate between fiction and reality. I am insane. Broken beyond repair. Or so I think until- I uncover a secret from the past-a link between all the deaths, my hallucinations, and my night terrors. It's then I understand I'm not the Angel of Death. I am something else. Someone else.

The Automobile Club of Egypt

Author : Alaa Al Aswany
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184007310
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Automobile Club of Egypt written by Alaa Al Aswany and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post–World War II Cairo Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, moves his family to Cairo and takes on menial work at the Automobile Club—a place of refuge and luxury for its European members, but one where Egyptians may appear only as servants. Alku, the lifelong Nubian servant of Egypt’s corrupt king, runs the show in all but name. The servants, a squabbling, humorous, and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fear: beaten for their mistakes, their wages dependent on Alku’s whims. When Abd el-Aziz’s pride gets the better of him and he stands up for himself, his death—as much from shame as from his injuries after Alku has him beaten—leaves his widow further impoverished and two of his sons obliged to work in the Club. As the family is drawn into the turbulent politics of Egypt—public and private—both servants and masters are subsumed by the country’s social upheaval. Soon, the Egyptians of the Automobile Club face a stark choice: to live safely but without dignity as servants, or to fight for their rights and risk everything.