16 July 2008
Playing cards in Cairo with Hugh Miles
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Cairo is the biggest city in Africa, a kaleidoscope of races, religions, sects and politics. British journalist and self-styled bar fly Hugh Miles lived and worked there for some years and fell in love with an Egyptian doctor, Roda. Hugh and Roda were eventually married and Hugh's book about their time of courtship, called Playing Cards in Cairo, is a window onto the political, religious and cultural tensions under which women in Egypt live.
Publications
Title: Playing Cards in Cairo
Author: Hugh Miles
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN-13 9780 3491 1979 3
Presenter
Kirsten Garrett
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