egyptian americans

Feeling out of place in a Montana home where nobody can pronounce his name, Khosi Saqr travels to Cairo in search of his father and a connection to his heritage before discovering lessons about belonging, family, and culture.

Traveling to his ancestral home in Egypt to battle the evil wizard Badru, twelve-year-old Tommy Bomani, who has inherited great strength and an ability to shape-shift into powerful, large cats, must first find a missing piece of a statue carved by the Egyptian god Ra.

Tired of warrior training, overconfident Tommy Bomani uses his newly acquired shape-shifting power to battle Marcellus Fish, evil wizard Badru's henchman.

Although an ancient prophecy foretells his death, twelve-year-old Tommy Bomani, who inherited his powerful strength and shape-shifting ability from an Egyptian god, prepares to battle the evil wizard Badru, with help from the Protectorate, a small group of adults in Tommy's community.

After discovering that he has inherited the ability to transform into a cat, sixth-grader Tommy Bomani learns about his Egyptian warrior bloodline.

What she wanted was a vacation. What she got was a revolution. After attending her first high school party lands her in jail, Mariam thinks things can't possibly get worse. So when her parents send her to live with her grandmother in Cairo, she is sure her life is over. Her Sittu is Darth Vader's evil sister, and Mariam is convinced that the only sights she'll get to see in Egypt are the rooms in her grandmother's apartment.

A sister and brother are whisked away to modern Egypt where their father is doing research. There they become involved in a mystery surrounding an ancient lost queen. The story is filled with riddles and old tales, and the kids find a link to their own mother, who died mysteriously.

Eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, son of a pale, freckled Irish-American mother and dark-skinned Egyptian father, feels alienated from his New Jersey classmates by his dun-colored skin and his Muslim faith, making him an easy target for the unscrupulous iman of the local mosque who steers Ahmad in the direction of a terrorist cell planning an attack on the Holland Tunnel.

Three Arab-American girls learn about their family and cultural history from their grandmother, who grew up in Cairo, Egypt, and moved to New Jersey after her marriage. Includes directions for making Egyptian paper boats.

Talibah and her younger brother Adom travel to Egypt with their archaeologist father, where they stumble upon the story of a lost pharaoh, a rare queen who lead Egypt for years but has been erased from history, and try to restore her to her rightful place among the country's ancient rulers.