Introduction : Cairo, mother of cities, again and again
Birds of passage / Robert Solé
And Cairo burned / Ahamd Hussein
Walking through fire / Nawal El Saadawi
In the eye of the sun / Ahdaf Soueif
Broken soul / Mohamed Mansi Qandil
Homage to a belly dancer / Edward Said
Heads ripe for plucking / Mahmoud Al-Wardani
Broken soul / Mohamed Mansi Qandil
The day the leader was killed / Naguib Mahfouz
The map of love / Ahdaf Soueif
The assassination of the big man / Ibrahim Issa
I am free / Ihsan Abdel Quddus
A girl from Shubra / Fathy Ghanem
Pyramids road / Midhat Gazalé
Zamalek / Chafika Hamamsy
Apricots on the Nile / Colette Rossant
Birds of passage / Robert Solé
Mme Zitta Mendès, a last image / Alaa Al Aswany
The Cairo house / Samia Serageldin
Like a summer never to be repeated / Mohamed Berrada
The apartment of freedom / Ghazi Abdel Rahman al-Qusaybi
Heads ripe for plucking / Mahmoud Al-Wardani
Saint Theresa / Bahaa Abdelmegid
The law of inheritance / Yasser Abdel Latif
The Yacoubian building / Alaa Al Aswany
Thieves in retirement / Hamdi Abu Golayyel
Palace walk / Naguib Mahfouz
In the house of Muhammad Ali / Hassan Hassan
The days / Taha Hussein
Out of Egypt / Ihab Hassan
A border passage / Leila Ahmed
Pyramids road / Midhat Gazalé
Colored rbbons from my life / Laila Osayran
Out of place / Edward Said
I am free / Ihsan Abdel Quddus
Like a summer never to be repeated / Mohamed Berrada
The blue aubergine / Miral al-Tahawy
Taxi / Khaled Al Khamissi
Palace walk / Naguib Mahfouz
Harem years / Huda Shaarawi
The open door / Latifa al-Zayyat
And Cairo burned / Ahmad Hussein
Poor / Idris Ali
Birds of passage / Robert Solé
The novelists / Ghaleb Halasa
The search : personal papers / Latifa al-Zayyat
A certain woman / Hala El Badry
Heads ripe for plucking / Mahmoud Al-Wardani
Wark rock / Radwa Ashour
The heron / Ibrahim Aslan
Zeenat marches in the president's funeral / Salwa Bakr
Three suitcases for departure / Mona Prince
The Yacoubian building / Alaa Al Aswany
The Yacoubian building / Alaa Al Aswany
Checkpoints / Mourid Barghouti
Taxi / Khaled Al Khamissi
The eye with an iron lid / Sharif Hatatah
The ostrich egg / Raouf Musad
The smell of it / Sonallah Ibrahim
Memoirs from the women's prison / Nawal El Saadawi
Secret pleasures / Hamdi el-Gazzar
The return of the spirit / Tawfiq al-Hakim
Midaq Alley / Naguib Mahfouz
Palace walk / Naguib Mahfouz
The man who lost his shadow / Fathy Ghanem
The siren / Yusuf Idris
Like a summer never to be repeated / Mohamed Berrada
Zaat / Sonallah Ibrahim
Frequent stops / Mohamed Salah al-Azab
In the eye of the sun / Ahdaf Soueif
The golden chariot / Salwa Bakr
Taxi / Khaled Al Khamissi
Barbed silk / Amira Abou-Taleb
I want to get married / Ghada Abdel Al
Midaq Alley / Naguib Mahfouz
Five unread papers / Maguid Tobia
The story of the Upper Egyptian / Yahya Taher Abdullah
A dog with no tail / Hamdi Abu Golayyel
Zeenat marches in the president's funeral / Salwa Bakr
Cairo swan song / Mekkawi Said
Farewell, Heaven / Hamid Abdel Samad
Poor / Idris Ali
An interval for bewilderment / Mohamed al-Fakharani
Kyrie Eleison / Hani Abdel Mourid
Adrift on the Nile / Naguib Mahfouz
Did you have to turn on the light, Lili? / Yusuf Idris
Saqqara grief / Ismail Wali al-Din
Proud beggars / Albert Cossery
Down to the sea / Gamil Atia Ibrahim
The Hashish waiter / Khairy Shalaby
In celebration of life / Yasser Abdel Hafez
A dog with no tail / Hamdi Abu Golayyel
Ithaka / Raouf Musad
A tale with moral / Yahya Taher Abdullah
Sleeping with strangers / Bahaa Abdelmegid
An interval for bewilderment / Mohamed al-Fakharani
A 1/4 gram / Essam Youssef
Cairo treason / Sherine Aboul Naga
Cairo from edge to edge / Sonallah Ibrahim