Winner of the first “Arabic Booker Prize,” a vivid compelling historical tale set in late nineteenth-century Egypt. When Mahmoud, a disgraced Egyptian offic

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Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century