An epic historical novel set in Fatimid Cairo, Reem Bassiouney’s The Halva-Maker trilogy won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award and is forthcoming in English. The book explores the founding of Cairo, by a Shia dynasty and a set of generals and rulers who all hailed from elsewhere. We talked to Bassiouney about balancing research and imagination; shining a light on women in Egyptian medieval history; and the heritage (architectural and culinary) of the past.
نشرة أسبوعية مسائية من بودكاست فلسطين تصلُك إلى بريدك الإلكتروني، تُقدِّم أمتع وأفضل الحلقات من أكثر من ٣٠٠ برنامج
بودكاست عربي نختارها لك لتستمع وتستمتع وتتعلّم.
النشرة الأسبوعية
مساءً كل يوم سبت من اختيار المحررين
- The Revolution While Dreaming
- 1: Belonging to Oneself
- 2: Know Your Audience
- 3: Palestinian literature: regrets, tough choices and teen adventures
- 4: No Happy Endings
- Reem Bassiouney: Writing Historical Fiction is like “Stringing Pearls”
- 5: Sacred Cows
- 6: Court Jesters and Black Mirrors
- 7: Soft Power
- 8: Escape Acts
