غيوم فرنسية

The story moves through the years of the French campaign in Egypt, from the close of the eighteenth century into the nineteenth, and the shock waves sent across the sea by the French Revolution. Rebels raid the street and Christian market of Cairo's Azbakiyya and pile stones behind its gate. Yaqub drives the bulls from his own and his neighbours' oil presses into the alley; goaded by spears, they crash through the gate, letting in the French soldiers.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

287 pages in the original

First published

2019 by Ibn Rushd

Author's age

49 when first published