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Dreaming of Egypt? We've compiled our favorite library resources and web links for a virtual travel experience. Happy journey!
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Streaming Films Set in Egypt
- Antony & Cleopatra
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire, commands the eastern Mediterranean. Despite his infatuation with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, he has to return to Rome. As his fellow ruler Octavius schemes, Mark Antony rejoins Cleopatra and, driven by blind passion, they confront the mighty empire. - The Band's Visit
This heartwarming and poignant winner of the Audience Award at the Munich and Warsaw Film Festivals, is the mesmerizing and witty story of strangers in a strange land. A fading Egyptian police band arrives in Israel to play at the Arab Cultural Center. When they take the wrong bus, the band members find themselves in a desolate Israeli village. With no other option than to spend the night with the local townspeople, the two distinctly different cultures realize the universal bonds of love, music and life. - Garbage Dreams
Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys - Adham, a bright precocious 17-year-old; Osama, a charming impish 16-year-old; Nabil, a shy artistic 18-year-old - born into the trash trade and growing up i n the world's largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo. It is a world folded onto itself, an impenetrable labyrinth of narrow roadways camouflaged by trash; it is home to 60,000 Zaballeen (or Zabbaleen), Egypt's "garbage people." - Words of Witness
From the director of multi-award-winning documentary Garbage Dreams, Words of Witness follows a 22-year-old female reporter for the independent newspaper Egypt Independent, as she covers Egypt's tran sition to democracy, from the heyday of Tahir Square to Egypt's first free and fair presidential election. Defying cultural and gender norms as well as family expectations, Heba takes to the streets to report, using Facebook posts, tweets, and text messages, on an Egypt in turmoil.
Fiction Books Set in Egypt
The Alchemist by Call Number: Print, eAudiobook, Book on CDPublication Date: 1995-05-10An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasures found within.
The Cairo House by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 2000-09-01Samia Serageldin's heroine, the daughter of a politically prominent, land-owning Egyptian family, witnesses the changes sweeping her homeland. Looking back to the glamorous Egypt of the pashas and King Faruk, Serageldin moves forward to the police state of the colonels who seized power in 1952 and the disastrous consequences of Nasser's sequestration policies.
The Cairo Trilogy by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 2001-10-16Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Cries from the Lost Island by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 2020-03-10This standalone fantasy brings an ancient Egyptian mystery to life against a modern background, in a tale expertly crafted by a seasoned anthropologist.
The Curse of the Pharaohs by Call Number: Print, eAudiobook, Book on CDPublication Date: 1988-02-01One of the best-loved of mystery writers weaves another tale of intrigue featuring Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe of Crocodile on the Sandbank. This time the willful and witty duo must catch a murderer at an excavation of an ancient Egyptian tomb.
Death on the Nile by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 2011-02-01Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything - including the man her best friends loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile and something is dangerously amiss.
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by Call Number: Print, eAudiobookPublication Date: 2019-02-19In an alternate Cairo, humans live and work alongside otherworldly beings; the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities handles the issues that can arise between the magical and the mundane.
The Map of Love by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 2000-09-12An extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 1997-04-15Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this lush, sweeping, and richly detailed saga told in Cleopatra's own voice.
