When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian and writer (42, 45)
- Roland Barthes (214)
- Simone de Beauvoir (33)
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata (153)
- Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (143)
- Albert Camus (33)
- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (17, 35 )
- Jacques Derrida (214)
- Charles Dickens (14)
- Emily Dickinson, Letter to Mr. Higginson, April 15, 1862 ("The mind is so near itself...") (134)
- Assia Djebar, Fantasia (134)
- Frantz Fanon (33)
- Michel Foucault (214)
- Paulo Freire (33)
- Zeinab al-Ghazali, Return of the Pharaoh (122)
- Tewfik al-Hakim (252)
- Thomas Hardy (13, 14)
- George Herbert, "Teach Me, My God and King" (138)
- Taha Husain (252)
- Meiling Jin, "Strangers in a Hostile Landscape" (195-196, 235)
- Oot el Kouloub, Ramza (99)
- Edward William Lane (231, 241)
- Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (101, 252)
- Harriet Martineau (193)
- Somerset Maugham (14)
- Barbara McClintock (35)
- Albert Memmi (33)
- Felix Mendelssohn, "Hear My Prayer/O for the wings of a dove" (153)
- W.A. Mozart, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (153)
- Jalaluddin Rumi (5, 130, 155, 306)
- Edward Said (6, 33), Orientalism (240-242)
- Jean Said (Makdisi) (6)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (32)
- Huda Shaarawi, Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist (93, 94, 96, 259)
- Hanan al-Shaykh (252)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (14)
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (180, 192)
- William Butler Yeats, "The Wheel" (155)
Historical References
- King Abdullah I of Jordan (262)
- El Alamein (156)
- Arab-Israeli War of 1948 (9)
- Arab-Israeli War of 1967 (Six-Day War or Third Arab-Israeli War) (238)
- The Aswan High Dam (17)
- The Balfour Declaration (249, 250)
- Hasan al-Banna (261, 262)
- Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (38, 45)
- British Occupation of Egypt (1882) (37)
- Leon Castro (250)
- Dinshwai (The Dinshwai Incident, 1906) (44)
- Sir Anthony Eden (168, 171, 172, 190, 265)
- Egyptian Revolution of 1952 (7, 139, 203, 205)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (response to Suez crisis) (168)
- Mohamad Farid (248)
- King Farouk (9, 43, 71, 261)
- Hasan Fathy (34)
- Bilalia Fula and Al-Hajj Omar ibn Said (296)
- Hugh Gaitskell (170)
- Mahatma Gandhi (6, 8, 71)
- Talaat Harb (250)
- Iran Hostage Crisis (1979) (293)
- Iranian Islamic Revolution (289)
- Mustapha Kamil (247)
- Khedive Abbas II (248)
- Khedive Ismael (Ismail Pasha) (35)
- T.E. Lawrence (247, 249)
- Mohammed Ali (Governor of Egypt, 1805) (36)
- Salama Musa (Moussa) (45)
- Muslim Brotherhood (7, 122, 261, 262)
- Mahmoud al-Na'rashi (Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha), Egyptian prime minister (1945-1946; 1946-1948) who was assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood (261, 262)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser (9, 12, 17, 33, 149, 154, 164, 238-239, 269), Philosophy of the Revolution (269)
- Nasser's speech nationalizing the Suez Canal (1956) (19)
- Jawaharlal Nehru (6, 168)
- Anthony Nutting (170, 171)
- Enoch Powell (207, 224)
- Port Said, invasion by British and French forces (168-173)
- Anwar Sadat (9, 252)
- Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid (251)
- Doria Shafik (154)
- Suez Crisis (1956) (32)
- Sykes-Picot Agreement (248)
- Ahmed Urabi (37)
- Wafd Party (257)
- Saad Zaghloul (251, 252, 258)
Pop Culture References
- El-Arafa (City of the Dead)
- Asmahan (24, 111)
- Joseph Cicurel (Les Grands Magasins Cicurel) (250)
- Cinema Roxy (142)
- Taha Husain, Dua al-Karawan (The Curlew's Cry, movie adaptation) (163)
- Khan El Khalili Market (177)
- Um Kulsum (Umm Kulthum) (24, 177)
- Naguib el-Rehani (142)