Title: ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān
Subtitle: a novel
Description: The lives of the inhabitants of an apartment building in downtown Cairo intertwine as the destinies of a fading aristocrat, voluptuous siren, devout doorman, secretly-gay editor, roof-squatting tailor, and corrupt politician come together.
Subjects: Corruption, Fiction, Arabs, Political corruption, History, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Egypt, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, City and town life, Cairo (Egypt), Social conditions
Places: Cairo (Egypt)