WAnatomy of a Disappearance is the second novel by the award-winning Libyan writer Hisham Matar, first published in 2011 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books.
WThe Beggar is a 1965 novella by Naguib Mahfouz about the failure to find meaning in existence. It is set in post-revolutionary Cairo during the time of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
WChildren of Gebelawi is a novel by the Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. It is also known by its Egyptian dialectal transliteration, Awlad Haretna, and by the alternative translated transliteral Arabic title of Children of Our Alley.
WCity of the Sun is a novel by Juliana Maio, published by Greenleaf Book Group in March 2014. The novel, which blends historical fiction with spy fiction and romantic fiction, is set in Cairo, Egypt in 1941 during the North Africa Campaign of World War II. Though a work of fiction, it centers around true historical events and "connects the root of much of today's turmoil in the Middle East with the Axis-Allied struggle for control of the Suez Canal and the early history of the Muslim Brotherhood."
WAn Imaginative Man is an 1895 novel by the British writer Robert Hichens. A tale about a young honeymooning man in Cairo who eventually goes mad after a series of sexual adventures and kills himself at the Great Sphinx, it was a commercial hit and Hichens wrote a number of further books in the orientalist style.
WMenorahs and Minarets: A Novel is a 2017 book by Egyptian author Kamal Ruhayyim.
WMidaq Alley Arabic: زقاق المدق is the English Translation of 'Zuqaq El Midaq' by Egypt's Naguib Mahfouz, released in English in 1966. The story is about Midaq Alley in Khan el-Khalili, a teeming back street in Cairo which is a microcosm of the world.
WThe Night Manager is an espionage novel by John le Carré, published in 1993. It is his first post-Cold War novel, detailing an undercover operation to bring down a major international arms dealer.
WPalace Walk is a novel by Nobel Prize winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, and the first installment of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. Originally published in 1956 with the title Bayn al-qasrayn, the book was then translated into English by William M. Hutchins and Olive Kenny, and then published by Doubleday (publisher) in 1990. The book's Arabic title translates into 'between two palaces'. The setting of the novel is Cairo around the time period of World War I. It begins in 1917, during World War I, and ends in 1919, the year of the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. The novel is written in a social realist style and reflects the social and political setting of Egypt in during 1917 to 1919.
WSeeing a Large Cat is the ninth novel in the Amelia Peabody historical mystery series by Elizabeth Peters. The story takes place during the season of 1903-1904.
WThe Good Braider is a young adult novel in verse by Terry Farish, published May 1, 2012 by Marshall Cavendish.
WA Well-trained Stray is a novel by Egyptian author Muhammad Aladdin.
WThe Yacoubian Building is a novel by Egyptian author Alaa-Al-Aswany. The book was made into a film of the same name in 2006 and into a TV series in 2007.