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Zayni Barakat

Jamal al-Ghitani

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1974
Originally in
Originally in Arabic
Pages
Pages 240

Cairo, 1516. The Ottoman armies are gathering somewhere beyond the walls, though the city cannot yet feel them coming; what it feels instead is watched.

In the course of my long travels I have never seen a city so devastated.
Zayni Barakat, Jamal al-Ghitani

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