Cairo

Books in this genre are set in or about Cairo.

Impasse des deux palais
The Yacoubian Building
ملامح القاهرة في ألف سنة
A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)
Midaq Alley
‫أطلس القاهرة الأدبي: مائة عام في شوارع القاهرة ‬
Cairo: The City Victorious (Vintage Departures)
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
In the Eye of the Sun
The Colors of Infamy
A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)
القاهرة
سيرة القاهرة
Cairo: My City, Our Revolution
The Arabian Nightmare by Robert IrwinThe Road To Purification by Harry WhitewolfThe Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow WilsonCairo by Max RodenbeckIn the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif
CAIRO: fictional and factual stories.
74 books — 18 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
Must Reads
201 books — 164 voters

Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys by George C. Rogers Jr.Following Caesar by John KeaheyIstanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire by Bernard LewisCairo by Gaston WietBukhara by Richard N. Frye
Centers of Civilization series
34 books — 3 voters
Vintage Alexandria by Michael HaagBabylon of Egypt by Peter SheehanThe Treasures of Islamic Art in the Museums of Cairo by Bernard O'KaneHouse decoration in Nubia by Marian WenzelThe Literature of Ancient Egypt by William Kelly Simpson
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106 books — 3 voters

Nevada Lowball by Antonio NicassioThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fictitious Africa
565 books — 319 voters
Rivers of London by Ben AaronovitchStrange Practice by Vivian ShawThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene WeckerNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
SFF Set in Global Cities (No YA)
70 books — 7 voters


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“ At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture. ...more ”
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