The Yacoubian Building--#23 finished

A very interesting & good read about a building in Cairo, Egypt and some of the residents of the building. It talked about when the building was built and how Cairo then was a European city to now where it is struggling for identity with a dictator, fundamental Islamists, along with corruption, poor and sexual identity problems. For being a shorter book, just under 250 pages, it sure hits on a lot of timely subjects and shows the difficulty going on in Egypt today.

While I guess some might say there is hope, I am not sure there really is. It sounds like it is more and more a timebomb in Egypt as well as in most parts of the Arab world. There really are not good answers and there will probably be uprisings and civil wars going on for much of the foreseeable future.

I very much liked this book. It was both informative and interesting to read. It was certainly not a book that I could just rush through either. I have already posted it and hope to pass along to someone else to enjoy later this week since there was 1 WL for it.