Tuesday, June 18, 2019

THE LAST WATCHMAN OF OLD CAIRO, BY MICHAEL DAVID LUKAS

Book discussion date and time: Tuesday, July 16, 2019, at 10:30 A.M.

A Berkeley literature student of Jewish-Muslim heritage receives a mysterious package that draws him into a quest to uncover his ancestors' tangled history as watchmen for Old Cairo's storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue. Written across three different time periods, from three different perspectives, the result is an intricate history of Jewish people in Cairo and throughout Egypt.

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