cairo

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.

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.

Maggie Gobran has been called the Mother Teresa of Egypt. She has received Nobel Prize nominations for her innovative and transformative work in Cairo's garbage slums, caring for children who live forgotten in the worst of places. Her journey has taken her from a privileged childhood, to a stylish marketing executive, to a humble figure in white, navigating piles of stinking trash, bringing hope to the poorest of the poor.

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.

Follows the stories of Gabalawi, his sons, descendents, and rivals who live out their lives in an Egyptian alley in surprising parallels with their ancient ancestors.

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.

Presents a day in the life of a child living in Cairo, discussing the social life, customs, religion, history, and language of Egypt.