Novels set in Alexandria, Egypt
The Modern Novel home page » My Lists home page » Novels set in Alexandria, Egypt
Bahaa Abdelmegid: سانت تيريزا (St Theresa)
Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid: لا أحد ينام في الإسكندرية (No One Sleeps in Alexandria)
Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid: بيت الياسمين [The House of Jasmine] (note French translation La Maison aux jasmins)
Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid: طيور العنبر (Birds Of Amber)
Will Adams: The Alexander Cipher
Minou Azoulai: Murmures d’Alexandrie
Edwar al-Kharrat: ترابها زعفران (City of Saffron)
Edwar al-Kharrat: يا بنات إسكندرية (Girls of Alexandria)
Nick Bantock: Alexandria
Richard Blake: The Blood of Alexandria
Gillian Bradshaw: The Beacon at Alexandria
Sean Byrne: Gnosis!
Mary Casey: The Kingfisher’s Wing
Fausta Cialente: Ballata levantina (The Levantines)
Fausta Cialente: Cortile a Cleopatra
Leslie Croxford: Solomon’s Folly
Lindsey Davis: Alexandria
Lawrence Durrell: The Alexandria Quartet
Maurice Elia: Lunes bleues d’Alexandrie
D. J. Enright: Academic Year
I. O. Evans: Gadget City
Mutaz Fatihah: آخر يهود الاسكندرية [The Last Jews of Alexandria]
Derek Adie Flower: Farewell Alexandria
Anatole France: Thaïs (Thais)
Olalla García: El jardín de Hipatia
Christopher Garriott: The Cypriot
Yitzhak Gormezano Goren: Alexandrian Summer
Vangelis Gratseas: Στον ήλιο του Νείλου [In the Sun of the Nile]
Jon Courtenay Grimwood: Pashazade
N A Gulchuk: Спаситель Птолемей [The Saviour of Ptolemy]
Archibald Clavering Gunter: Mr. Potter of Texas
G. A. Henty: A Chapter of Adventures
G. A. Henty: The Young Midshipman
T. L. Higley: Guardian of the Flame
Adil Ismat: ايام النوافذ الزرقاء [Days of Blue Windows]
Andrea H Japp: Monestarium
José Jiménez Lozano: Un pintor de Alejandría
Faith L. Justice: Selene of Alexandria
Alaa Khaled: ألم خفألم خفيف كريشة طائر تنتقل بهدوء من مكان لآخرر [ ]
Soheir Khashoggi: Nadia’s Song
Charles Kingsley: Hypatia
Asa Lanova: Le Blues d’Alexandrie
Asa Lanova: Le Coeur tatoué
Asa Lanova: Les Jardins de Shalalatt
T S Learner: Sphinx
Ki Longfellow: Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria
Pierre Louÿs: Aphrodite (moeurs antiques) (Aphrodite (Ancient Manners))
Jean-Pierre Luminet: Le bâton d’Euclide
Naguib Mahfouz: ميرامار (Miramar)
Maurizio Maggiani: Il coraggio del Pettirosso [The Courage of the Redbreast]
Réga Noury Mahasse: Comme un flamboyant
Réga Noury Mahasse: Hier encore, à Alexandrie
Réga Noury Mahasse: Retour à Alexandrie
Olivia Manning: The Danger Tree
Gérald Messadié: La fortune d’Alexandrie
Keith Miller: The Book on Fire
Terenci Moix: El Sueñ;o de Alejandría
Fuad Nasr al-Din: النورس لا يعشق البحر [Nour Loves the Sea]
Ray Faraday Nelson: Dogheaded Death
Nirmin Nizar: إسكندرية، بيروت [Alexandria-Beirut]
Anne Nolting: Dear Future People
Pilar Pedraza: La perra de Alejandría
John Maddox Roberts: The Temple of the Muses
Anne Roiphe: An Imperfect Lens
Daniel Rondeau: Alexandrie
Luis Manuel Ruiz: Tormenta sobre Alejandría
Robert Solé: Le Sémaphore d’Alexandrie (The Alexandria Semaphore)
Duncan Sprott: The Ptolemies Quartet
Dimitris Stefanakis: Μέρες Αλεξάνδρειας [Days of Alexandria]
François Sureau: Les Alexandrins
Victor Teboul: La lente découverte de l’étrangeté
Paolo Terni: Suite alessandrina
Stratis Tsirkas: Λέσχη (first novel of Ακυβέρνητες Πολιτείες (Drifting Cities))
Harry E Tzalas: Alexandrea ad Aegyptum (Farewell to Alexandria)
Harry E Tzalas: Επτά ημέρες στην Αλεξάνδρεια (Seven Days at the Cecil)
Violaine Vanoyeke: Une mystérieuse égyptienne
Patrick Weber: Des Ombres sur Alexandrie
C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson: It Happened in Egypt
Svein Woje: Alexandria
Youssef Ziedan: عزازل (Azazeel)
Alexandrea ad Aegyptum anthology edited by Sherif Boraie
Born in Alexandria
André Aciman
Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid
Sibilla Aleramo
Constantine Cavafy
Jacqueline Cooper
Edwar al-Kharrat
Filippo Marinetti
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Other links
Reading Alexandria, Egypt (from Marcia Qualey’s essential blog on Arabic literature)
Modern & Contemporary Alexandria in Fiction
Literary Alexandria and Nostalgic Alexandrian Literature (item 35_2_2009.pdf, scroll to page 169)
How Not to Write on Cosmopolitan Alexandria
Writing about Writing about Alexandria – A Response to May Hawas (response to article above)
Alexandrian Melodies
Alexandrie dans la littérature et dans la vie (in French)