{"product_id":"book-h9y9","title":"The Cairo Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003eOmar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in this three-part drama, recorded entirely in Egypt's capital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdapted from the novels of Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz, this gripping family saga chronicles the life of a downwardly-mobile middle class family as Egypt emerges from colonialism and adjusts to the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cairo Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e traces three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. We are introduced to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons-the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. As his rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination, the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout the trilogy, the family's trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003eCast:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld Kamal...........Omar Sharif\u003cbr\u003eYoung Kamal.......Karim Fouda\u003cbr\u003eKamal............Amr Waked\u003cbr\u003eAl-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab.....Ihab Sakkout\u003cbr\u003eAmina..............Caroline Khalil\u003cbr\u003eFahmy..............Mena Reda\u003cbr\u003eYasin................Tamer Nasrat\u003cbr\u003eMiriam..............Ola Roshdy\u003cbr\u003eAida...............Shirine El Ansari\u003cbr\u003eZanuba...........Maryam El Khoshed\u003cbr\u003eZubayda..........Zeinab Moubarak\u003cbr\u003eAhmad................Sedky Sakhar\u003cbr\u003eMunim.................Ahmed Nour\u003cbr\u003eSawsan...............Dina Nadim\u003cbr\u003eBadur..................Radwa Elgabry\u003cbr\u003eOther cast members: Rena Malak, Yara Goubran, Nairy Avedissian, Ekram Zalat, Sherif Nour, Salah Fahmy, Yeve Youssef, Saymaa Shalan, Mika Thabet, Hany Seef, Hugh Sowden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDramatised by Ayeesha Menon\u003cbr\u003eDirected by John Dryden\u003cbr\u003eMusic by Sacha Puttnam\u003cbr\u003eA Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49389019463984,"sku":"BDh9y9","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/h9y9-Square-cover.jpg?v=1769768311","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-h9y9","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}