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This story of two Egyptian sisters was really interesting, especially because it combines science and religion, and ancient tradition and politics with the contemporary. Hassib tackles and comments on a lot: marriage, Islam, revolution, journalism, museum curation, siblinghood, family, identity,....maybe too much for the time and place scope of the book. And the writing was, at times, kind of uninspiring. Even though there was a good amount of backstory to the characters, I never felt like ...more
This story of two Egyptian sisters was really interesting, especially because it combines science and religion, and ancient tradition and politics with the contemporary. Hassib tackles and comments on a lot: marriage, Islam, revolution, journalism, museum curation, siblinghood, family, identity,....maybe too much for the time and place scope of the book. And the writing was, at times, kind of uninspiring. Even though there was a good amount of backstory to the characters, I never felt like ...more
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