cairo (egypt)

Upon thirteen-year-old Sahara's return to Egypt, she must learn how to wield the power of the wind in order to stop el Ghoula from stealing Ali Baba's magic lamp.

When her mother has the chance to establish an eye clinic for the poor in Cairo, Egypt, seventeen-year-old Caroline reluctantly gives up her plans for a summer spent with her best friend and boyfriend and instead moves to Cairo, where she encounters a culture and city that enchant her and a charming boy who challenges her thoughts on love, faith, and privilege.

A study of women, poverty, and life in Cairo, as told through the words of Umm Ali, a member of the lower class who lives with her husband and eight children in a poor neighborhood, enduring a lack of money, little space, and often violence, with hope, dignity, and self-respect.

Presents a one-volume edition of the three novels in the Cairo Trilogy which follows three generations of the family of Muslim patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad during the British occupation of Egypt in the early years of the twentieth century.