An Egyptian Novel Biography and then as a breaking

and then as a breaking down into "disconnectedness" where the only form of communication is a radio tape that endlessly repeats itself

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Florence Xiangyun Zhang is an associate professor at Université Paris Diderot

storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights

An Egyptian Novel Biography and then as a breakingThe protagonist has Egyptian roots going back many generations: on her fathers side, to the expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492, when seven brothers of the Kastil family (from Castilla) landed on the Gaza coast after many trials and tribulations. Her mothers side goes back even further, to the only family that Jewish history has ignored: the ones who said No to Moses and stayed in Egypt. The protagonist has Egyptian roots going back many