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الشطار

Khairy Shalaby

رحلات الطرشجي الحلوجي

بطن البقرة

موال البيات والنوم

منامات عم أحمد السماك

العراوي

English

The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets

The Hashish Waiter

The Lodging House

Children's Book

Biography or Memoir

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Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Illustrated Books, and Manga

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Khairy Shalaby (خيري شلبي) (January 31, 1938 – 9 September 2011) was an Egyptian novelist and writer. He wrote some 70 books, including twenty novels, critical studies, historical tales, plays and short story collections. Khairy is widely regarded as having written novels “of the Egyptian street.”
Adam Talib, who translated The Hashish Waiter, said of Shalaby’s prose:
The most enjoyable—and the most difficult—quality about Khairy’s prose is the way he mixes language levels (registers) within a s...

Books by Khairy Shalaby

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