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Abdo, Geneive. No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam. New York: Oxford, 2000.
Traces the development of Islam in Egypt and discusses how it has influenced the country's culture.

Bakr, Salwa. The Wiles of Men and Other Stories. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.

Ahmed, Leila. A Border Passage: From Cairo to America, A Woman's Journey.
The story of the author's Egyptian childhood during the 1940s and 50s, where she witnesses the end of British colonialism, the creation of Israel, the rise of Arab nationalism under Nasser, and the breakdown of Egypt's once multireligious society. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.

Ghosh, Amitav. In an Antique Land. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Lagnado, Lucette. The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World. New York: Ecco, 2007.
Lagnado re-creates the cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Nasser's rise to power. As streets are renamed, neighborhoods of their fellow Jews disbanded, and the city purged of foreign influence, the Lagnados, too, must make their escape. The poverty and hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to Paris to New York are strikingly juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.