About the book:
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This multigenerational family saga begins when S alim\, the eldest of three brothers\, moves to Cairo at the start of the 2 0th \;century. \; His decision to leave his ancestral village of K om Ombo reverberates across generations\, kicking off a series of migratio ns that shape the lives of his family and their descendants\, culminating with the 2011 protests in Tahrir Square. \;
\nAbout the author\, Dr. Pauline Kaldas
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Pauline Kaldas \;is the author of "The Me asure of Distance" (novel)\, "Looking Both Ways" (essays)\, "The Time Betw een Places" (stories)\, "Letters from Cairo" (memoir)\, "Egyptian Compass" (poetry)\, and the textbook\, "Writing the Multicultural Experience."&nbs p\; She also co-edited "Dinarzad&rsquo\;s Children: An Anthology of Contem porary Arab American Fiction \;and \;Beyond Memory: An Anthology o f Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction." \; She was awarded a fellowship in fiction from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and has been in residency at MacDowell\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts \, the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow\, and Green Olive Arts in Morocco.&n bsp\; She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hollins Universi ty. \;
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