- 2018
The young who filled Tahrir Square in 2011, and the men who crushed them.
- 2002
A faded downtown Cairo block, from the old pasha’s flat to the families on its roof.
- 1999
An English widow loves an Egyptian nationalist in 1900, pieced together in 1990s Cairo.
- 1998
Five thousand years of Cairo, from the pharaohs to its traffic, told by a resident.
- 1992
- 1987
- 1986
1488–1492: a boy’s childhood in Granada, until the city falls and his family flees.
- 1982
Cairo in the desert war: a young wife, her husband’s circle, and a soldier at the front.
- 1974
- 1957
The 1920s: the merchant’s son Kamal loses his faith and his first love in Cairo.
- 1957
The 1930s and the war: the grandsons split between Islamists and communists in Cairo.
- 1956
1917: a merchant rules his family like a tyrant in old Cairo, as revolt stirs.
- 1955
A professor who chose poverty, a murder in a brothel, and the idle, happy poor of Cairo.
- 1947
One Cairo alley in the Second World War, and a girl who leaves it for British soldiers.
- 1929also Upper Egypt
A blind boy in an Upper Egypt village, then a student at al-Azhar in Cairo.
- 1910also Upper Egypt
1849–50: the young Flaubert up the Nile by boat, after the baths and dancers of Cairo.
- 1908also Upper Egypt
Cairo, Luxor and Philae in 1907, as the first Aswan dam begins to drown the temple.
- 1851also Istanbul
The women, slave market and Ramadan nights of Cairo, then Beirut and Constantinople.