If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: A Novel Binding:Paperback who instructs him in the

who instructs him in the ways of her family's powerful war art

One night Birdie watches her father and his new girlfriend drive away with Cole

and a man who grew up in a religious household and did everything “right

singing to his children to distract them

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: A Novel Binding:Paperback who instructs him in theWinner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN Jean Stein Book Award Shortlisted for the 2022 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man