A collection of stories from modern-day Cairo. As with any collection, a mixed bag, and as a UK reader I didn‘t always understand what they were driving at. The blurb describes the stories as ‘tentative glimpses...[as] writing directly about Egypt‘s challenges is often too dangerous‘.
Gridlock (the lives of characters stuck in traffic) and ‘An alternative guide to getting lost‘ (ghostly bureaucracy & trying to leave) were the standouts to me.