المولودة

Naila Kamel, born Marie Elie Rosenthal, was the daughter of an Egyptian Jewish father and an Italian Christian mother who met in Egypt in the 1920s. She grew up in Cairo, joined the communist movement and its underground work, was imprisoned, fell in love with and married an Egyptian journalist and activist, and worked as a journalist for women's causes, standing by her husband when the authorities hounded and isolated him. Her story moves through an Egypt that no longer exists, with its prisons, comrades and hard choices, and how she raised her two daughters and dealt with families sorted by religion, race and sex.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

551 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Egypt

First published

2018 by al-Karma

ISBN

9789776467934 (original)