PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City by Hugh Miles

A scarce Egypt travel memoir. This is a used travel book in good, read condition: cover is clean with some creases to corners; page corners are a bit creased and curled from reading; pages are clean and tanning lightly at the edges with age. Not mint but a good clean reading copy. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: Recently installed in Cairo as a freelance journalist and expat barfly, Hugh Miles soon meets and falls in love with Roda, a beautiful Egyptian doctor, who introduces him to Egypt's favourite pastime, the card game tarneeb, to her all-female card circle, and to a previously unseen side of life in the Middle East's greatest city. While the women cut and shuffle, Miles listens to their stories and learns about what it means to be a young Muslim woman, dating, dieting and divorcing in a country where traditional Islamic values are in the ascendant. Yosra struggles with an addiction to prescription drugs; Nadia copes with a baby and an abusive husband; neighbour Reem comes to terms with plastic surgery gone wrong; while her sister attempts to conceal her secret love-marriage from her family and to breathe life into a clothes shop run by a regime apparatchik with an Islamist vision of retail. Hugh Miles takes a fascinating sideways look at the lives of young Egyptians, and finds himself on a romantic adventure that will lead him to Islam and bind him to the Arab world for ever.

Book Details

Code: SKU573

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 279

Published: 2008 by Abacus

ISBN: 0349119791

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