title: The Literary Atlas of Cairo: One Hundred Years on the Streets of the City
author: Samia Mehrez
description: Samia Mehrez is professor of Arabic literature in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilization and director of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in Cairo. She is the author of Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim, and Gamal al-Ghitani (AUC Press, pb edition 2005) and Egypts Culture Wars: Politics and Practice.
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  One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City Edited and Introduced by
  
  Samia Mehrez
  
  The American University in Cairo Press
  
  Cairo New York
  
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  First published in 2011 by
  
  The American University in Cairo Press
  
  113 Sharia Kasr el Aini, Cairo, Egypt
  
  420 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018
  
  www.aucpress.com
  
  Copyright © 2011 by Samia Mehrez
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
  a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,
  mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written
  permission of the publisher.
  
  Dar el Kutub No. 2266/10
  
  ISBN 978 977 416 390 6
  
  Dar el Kutub Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Mehrez, Samia
  
  The Literary Life of Cairo: One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City / by
  Samia Mehrez.—Cairo: The Amer