Interested in Joining a Book Club in Gouna?

Waguih Ghali's classic 1964 novel Beer in the Snooker Club, which was published in English, unfolds during a turbulent point time in Modern Egypt -- the late 1950s. Gamal Abdel Nasser and a small cadre of colonels have bloodlessly dethroned King Farouk, but the British, French, and Israelis return in 1956 to wreak havoc in Suez. The tragi-comic novel chronicles the adventures of its anti-hero, Ram, and his New Statesman-reading best friend Font, as they negotiate a vastly changed political and social landscape in post 1952 revolution Cairo.

If you are interested in joining a new book club that would meet weekly,  in the evening, at El Gouna’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina to discuss this literary masterpiece, please email gounanews@gmail.com  and indicate the time and day of the week of your preference.  Classes will be moderated by Ali Hazzah, an Egyptian who lived in Cairo during the time period of this novel.  Mr. Hazzah has published a number of stories in Mizna, the Arab-American literary and cultural journal, and has a BA in English. Admission will depend on the number of respondents, and what the Gouna Library would charge to rent its Culturama room, which seats 70 people.