The Big Read Egypt/U.S.
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The Big Read Egypt/U.S. is a Global Cultural Initiative of the Cultural Programs Division in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Arts Midwest, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The program is designed to deepen cultural understanding and dialogue between Egyptians and Americans through the shared reading of each nation's great literary treasures. The Big Read Egypt/U.S. brings together libraries, community groups, schools and other partners in the U.S. and Egypt to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and to become better acquainted with each others' culture and society.
American Novels Being Read in Egypt
In one of literature's most haunting denunciations of censorship, Ray Bradbury uses the materials of science fiction to tell the story of Guy Montag, a fireman forced to burn books.
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As Harper Lee's narrator, Scout Finch, tries to draw out a reclusive neighbor, she bears witness to a racially charged trial that shapes the character of her Alabama community.
A Dust Bowl saga of a family's rough passage to California and the rougher treatment they find there, the novel is tragedy and comedy, story and allegory, editorial and epic.
A Classic Egyptian Novel Being Read in the U.S.
Nobel laureate Mahfouz's psychological thriller follows a thief's quest for revenge down the boulevards and back alleys of Cairo.
