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Menorahs and Minarets: A Novel is a 2017 book by Egyptian author Kamal Ruhayyim.

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It constitutes the third part of the "Galal trilogy", dealing with the life of Galal, an Egyptian man with a Muslim father and a Jewish mother. After residing a decade in Paris, he returns to Cairo in the 1970s, where he faces the fact that he no longer belongs to his old Egyptian home.[1][2]

This book was translated into English by Sarah Enany and published by AUC Press.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Menorahs and Minarets
  2. [2]
    Marcia Lynx Qualey, "The unchangeable past" (review of Menorahs and Minarets), Qantara, 2017.
  3. [3]
    Kamal Ruhayyim bio at Hoopoe.


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