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SUMMARY:In Person: An Afternoon with Sherif Meleka
DESCRIPTION:\nAbout the Book:\nAn enchanted ring brings good fortune to an 
 Egyptian oud player in this compelling novel combining elements of magical
  realism with political history\n\nCan one man or a mere ring alter the ev
 ents of one's life and the history of a country? Combining elements of mag
 ical realism with momentous history\, Suleiman's Ring poses these question
 s and more in a gripping tale of friendship\, identity\, and the fate of a
  nation.\n\nAlexandria\, Egypt\, on the eve of the 1952 Free Officers revo
 lution. Dawud\, a struggling musician\, is summoned with his best friend S
 heikh Hassanein to a meeting with Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser\, who seeks 
 their help as he mobilizes for the revolution. Dawud lends Nasser an encha
 nted silver ring for its powers to bring good luck. The revolution succeed
 s but Dawud soon grows estranged from Hassanein\, who has joined the Musli
 m Brotherhood\, after he suggests that Dawud leave Egypt since as a Jew he
  is no longer welcome. When Hassanein is arrested\, however\, destiny draw
 s Dawud into a complex web of sexual intrigue and betrayal that threatens 
 to upend his already precarious existence.\n\nSet against the backdrop of 
 the simmering political tensions of mid-twentieth-century Egypt and the Ar
 ab-Israeli wars\, Sherif Meleka's story of fate and fortune transports us 
 to another time and place while peeling back the curtain on events that st
 ill haunt the country to this day.\nAbout the Author:\nSherif Meleka was 
 born in 1958 into a Coptic Christian family in Alexandria\, Egypt. A train
 ed medical doctor\, he emigrated to the United States in 1984. He is the a
 uthor of numerous novels\, poetry and short story collections in Arabic. S
 uleiman's Ring is his English-language debut. He currently lives in Jackso
 nville\, Florida\, USA.Raymond Stock is senior instructor of Arabic at Lou
 isiana State University with a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizat
 ions from the University of Pennsylvania (2008). A former resident of Cair
 o (1990-2010)\, he has translated seven books and many short stories by Na
 guib Mahfouz (1911-2006)\, including Before the Throne\, Khufu's Wisdom\, 
 The Coffeehouse (all AUC Press).
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LOCATION:Books & Books 265 Aragon Avenue #5008\, Books &amp\; Books 265 Ara
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