Cairo Trilogy
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The Cairo Trilogy is a trilogy of novels set in Cairo, Egypt. It was written by Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
The three novels are:
- Palace Walk (original Arabic title: "Bayn al-Qasrayn", 1956)
- Palace of Desire ("Qasr al-Chawq", 1957)
- Sugar Street ("Al-Sukkariyya", 1957)
The books follow the life of the Cairene patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad and his family across three generations, from World War I to the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952.