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A Novel About the Middle East, Part One
The year before I was born, the president of Egypt was assassinated. At certain points, you weren't allowed to be out at night in Cairo. "I think that was the straw that broke the camel's back for my dad," El-Aqid says. The book's main character, Sarat, is radicalized by her own reality.