Hugh Miles

Playing Cards in Cairo

Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City

Klappentext:

Playing Cards in Cairo is a fly-on-the-wall account – like The Bookseller of Kabul – of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment. Hugh Miles lives in Cairo and is engaged to an Egyptian woman. Twice a week he plays cards with a small group of Arab, Muslim women and through this medium he explores their lives in modern Cairo, the greatest of Arab cities. It is a secretive, romantic, often deprived but always soulful existence for the women as they struggle with abusive husbands and philandering boyfriends. The book is a window onto a city – and a way of life – which is at a crucial juncture in its history. Hugh Miles, who knows the Arab world intimately, is the perfect guide.

Über die Autorin / über den Autor:

Hugh Miles was born in Jedda, Saudi Arabia in 1977. Miles was educated in Libya, at the Dragon School, Oxford, and at Eton. He studied Arabic at Pembroke College, Oxford University, and English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. He works as a freelance journalist and author, a presenter, producer and consultant specialising in the Middle East. Miles is contributing editor of Arab Media and Society, a media journal published by the American University in Cairo's Centre for Television Journalism. He lives with his family in Cairo and London.

Preis: CHF 18.50
Sprache: Englisch
Art: Taschenbuch
Erschienen: 2011 (2008)
Verlag: Little, Brown
ISBN: 978-0-7481-2960-7
Masse: 277 S.

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