''Days in the Diaspora'' is a 2008 book by Egyptian author

Kamal Ruhayyim Kamal Ruhayyim (Arabic: كمال رحيم) (born 1947) is an Egyptian writer. He obtained a doctorate in law from Cairo University, before pursuing a career in law enforcement (police and Interpol). As an author, he is best known for the Galal tril ...

, translated into English in 2012. It constitutes the second part of the "Galal trilogy", dealing with the life of Galal, an Egyptian man with a Muslim father and a Jewish mother. The unforgiving 1960s lead Galal and his family to exile in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

, where he endures several hardships. This book was translated into English by

Sarah Enany Sarah Enany ( ar, ساره عناني) is a literary translator. She has a PhD in drama and teaches at Cairo University. She has translated works by Yusuf Idris, Mohamed Salmawy and Ahmed Aboul Gheit, but she is best known for her translation of ...

and published by AUC Press.Kamal Ruhayyim bio
at Hoopoe.

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2012 novels Egyptian novels Novels set in Paris Novels set in the 1960s Jewish Egyptian history Egyptian-Jewish diaspora Jews and Judaism in Paris Islam and Judaism 2008 novels {{Egypt-novel-stub

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