A review by marcymurli
Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed by Ahdaf Soueif

3.0

This is a wonderful memoir of a city--a snapshot really, taken at one of its most promising moments. Soueif does a beautiful job capturing the mood of Cairo during the revolution of 2011. While the reality of Cairo, and indeed of Egypt more generally, is rather grim today, her sense of what went wrong and what is still possible leaves readers on a hopeful note.