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Jenny
May 23, 2010 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
An overview of Cairo and King Fuad University in the 1930s. The main character Mahgub Abd al-Da'im is a poor student from a provincial town who will do anything to satisfy his own ambitions.

Published in Arabic in the 1940s and recently translated.
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Adrienne
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