Butterfly wings /
A chance encounter on a plane throws together Doha, a fashion designer unhappily married to a leading figure in the Mubarak regime, and Ashraf, an academic and leading dissident. The story of their relationship and Doha's self-discovery runs alongside a young Egyptian's search for the moth...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | [International version]. |
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| Summary: | A chance encounter on a plane throws together Doha, a fashion designer unhappily married to a leading figure in the Mubarak regime, and Ashraf, an academic and leading dissident. The story of their relationship and Doha's self-discovery runs alongside a young Egyptian's search for the mother he never knew, and these intersecting narratives unfold against the background of political protests that culminate in the overthrow of the regime. A moving and at times humorous story, Butterfly Wings is an extended allegory of Egypt's modern experience of authoritarian rule and explores the fractures and. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (191 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781617975684 1617975680 9781617975752 1617975753 9781617975714 1617975710 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |