A police officer tortures one last suspect in the most important assignment of his career: to find the ultimate Truth …
A woman confesses her love to a reclusive, masked man in a video rental shop ...
A disgraced doctor confronts a man whose job it is to create rumours that spread across Cairo …
Founded over a thousand years ago under the sign of Mars "the victorious", Cairo has long been a welcoming destination for explorers and tourists, drawn by traces of the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis. More recently, the Egyptian capital has become a city determined to forget. Since 2013, the events of the "Arab Spring" have been gradually erased from its official history. Here ten new voices offer tentative glimpses into Cairene life, at a time when writing directly about Egypt's greatest challenges is often too dangerous. With intimate views of life, tinged with satire, surrealism, and humour, these stories guide us through the slums and suburbs, bars and backstreets of a city haunted by an unspoken past.
Translated by Adam Talib, Raphael Cohen, Basma Ghalayini, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Raph Cormack, Andrew Leber, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Elisabeth Jaquette, Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Yasmine Seale.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Raph Cormack is a translator, editor and author with a PhD in modern Arabic literature. He has worked as a translator for Egyptian playwright Ali Salem as well as running his own Arabic translation blog which has featured work by Mohammed Taymur, Ahmed al-Kashif, and Mohammed Ahmed Mahjoub, among others.
Featuring Hassan Abdel Mawgoud, Eman Abdelrahim, Nael Eltoukhy, Areej Gamal, Hatem Hafez, Hend Ja'far, Nahla Karam, Mohamed Kheir, Ahmed Naji and Mohamed Salah al-Azab.
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