The Book Smuggler

Omaima Al-Khamis

EGP300.00

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In the epic fashion of the great Arab explorers and travel writers of the Middle Ages, scribe and bookworm Mazid al-Hanafi narrates this journey from his remote village in the Arabian Desert. Dreaming of grand libraries, his passion for the written word draws him into a secret society of book smugglers and into the famed cultural capitals of the period?Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Granada, and Cordoba.

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