Temple Bar: An Egyptian Novel
by Bahaa Abdelmegid
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Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Moataz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Moataz has enough problems with his family's high expectations and the unrequited, idealized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has to deal with cantankerous landlords, inscrutable local women, the Irish judiciary, haunted seminaries, and cold winter nights selling flowers on the banks of the Liffey to make ends meet. His own personal demons travel with show more him, especially the clash between his sexual desires and his reluctance to become emotionally entangled wi show lessTags
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- 892.737 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Afro-Asiatic literatures Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 2000–
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- PR6120 .O56 .A234 — Language and Literature English English Literature 2001-
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