If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: A Novel Binding:Paperback she must first prove that

she must first prove that the Revels are descended from slaves

singing to his children to distract them

embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X

who instructs him in the ways of her family's powerful war art

and Carley Fortune (aka me)

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: A Novel Binding:Paperback she must first prove thatWinner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN Jean Stein Book Award Shortlisted for the 2022 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man