Diary of a Jewish Muslim: A Novel

Kamal Ruhayyim

Spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, this sweeping novel accompanies Galal, a young boy with a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, through his childhood and boyhood in a vibrant popular quarter of Cairo. With his schoolboy crushes and teen rebellions, Galal is deeply Egyptian, knit tightly into the middle-class fabric of manners, morals, and traditions that cheerfully incorporates and transcends religiona fabric about to be torn apart by a bigger world of politics that will put Galals very identity to the test.