Mekkawi Said

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• تغريدة البجعة

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  IPAF 2008 · Shortlist

  Cairo Swan Song

  تغريدة البجعة · Taghridat al-baja'a

  Mekkawi Said · 52 when first published

  Novel · Love, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:In downtown Cairo, Mustafa, a would-be poet who never made it, drifts between the café, the foreigners and the street children of the neighbourhood, haunted by the women he could not keep.