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Podcast: New Books in Biography & Memoir
Episode: Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
Description: Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the NileĀ (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025) is a first-person memoir written from the standpoint of a Jewish boy growing up in Egypt during the watershed years that shaped the Middle East into the powder keg it is today.Described as the āHolden Caulfield of the Nileā for his rebellious attitude, the boy witnessedābetween the ages of seven to fourteenāthe 1952 revolution that overthrew King Farouk and gave rise to the dictatorship of Gamal Abdel Nasser; the 1956 Suez war that marked the end of the British empire; and in its wa...