Aseer Books Amber Birds - Ibrahim Abdel Meguid - Alexandria

Birds of Amber is the second part of the Alexandria trilogy. Alexandria in the fifties of the last century until the sixties and the political and historical events and how the great exodus of foreigners from the city began and how the city began to lose its cosmopolitan spirit and become an Egyptian city. The cosmopolitan Alexandria has become for foreigners and for Egyptians a dream like the legendary amber bird that never purifies. Here was the turning point in the history of the city. And just like “Nobody sleeps in Alexandria,” the spirit of place and time is manifested in all the events of the novel and characters who will never leave you, foreigners and Egyptians