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The Yacoubian Building - Online Term Paper

The Yacoubian Building

Sixteen attendees at the Montrose Great Books book club on June 2, 2011 gathered to discuss THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING . I was surprised to hear how well the book was received in the group. One of the attendees who had immigrated to the U.S. from Egypt in 1980 when she was fourteen years old and whose mother was still living in Cairo gave us some first hand knowledge of her experiences. Of most interest, I thought was her description of how women's dress had changed. In 1980, the city was very European and now when she recently visited last year before the uprisings, nearly every woman in the street wore a Burqa. Her mother who is quite elderly told her daughter how she had recently been ...

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a terrorist. In a terrorist operation by a group he joins, he kills the man who tortured him.

The book was a "slice of life" as described by one attendee. Because it was intended to represent reality rather than using symbols and metaphors for its message or messages typical of a "roman a clef", there were many themes including Egyptian culture and history and customs, poverty, corruption, homosexuality and heterosexual sexual and romantic liasons, political unrest, family loyalty, and rights (or lack therof) of Egyptian Islamic women.

Though the story had some stereotypical characters and some Danielle Steele type story elements (i.e. a soap opera of wealth and poverty, idyllic romance and/or romance gone sour,etc.), I am still glad I read it. I enjoyed the originality of the context and location of the story which was the community of people, mostly Islamic, in Cairo, Egypt living in and on the roof of a building that exists there today. And also the quality of the writing ...

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Added: 4/8/2013 01:43:32 AM
Submitted By: yacoub111
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 491
Pages: 2

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