Shahaama: Five Egyptian Men Tell Their Stories

by Nayra Atiya

Book Overview

Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a business- man, and a production manager. Through personal interviews over the course of several years, Atiya intimately captured the everyday triumphs and struggles of these young men in a rapidly changing Egyptian society. These tender stories of childhood experiences in the rural countryside, of the rigors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081563434X
• ISBN13: 9780815634348
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"