The Girl with Braided Hair was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the “Arabic Booker”) under the title, Passion Based on actual historical events – Napoleon’s 1798 campaign in Egypt and his relationship with a young, local girl, Zeinab Bakry Accessible writing, plot-driven narrative that is both set in the past and modern day Strong female characters exploring what is means to be a woman and to live passionately in both historical and present-day Cairo Books on the art...
