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Shahhat: An Egyptian by Richard Critchfield

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3.0

Pretty interesting - I read it for an Intro to Middle Eastern Studies class. Basically a story about teenage angst in rural upper Egypt, around the time the Aswan dam was first built. I didn't realize until the end that the author was present for a lot of the scenes in the book; he left himself out of the entire narrative.
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