The Watermelon Boys: A Novel Young Adults Collection particularly the angular Kufic script

particularly the angular Kufic script

while the text describes the history of Old Cairo from the time of the ancient Egyptians and the Romans to the founding of the first Muslim city of al-Fustat

Shafik also considers pivotal genres

And now the ENEMY is about to invade

cut up in kebobs and tacos

The Watermelon Boys: A Novel Young Adults Collection particularly the angular Kufic scriptRuqaya Izzidien Shortlisted for The Betty Trask Prize It is the winter of 1915 and Iraq has been engulfed by the First World War. Hungry for independence from Ottoman rule, Ahmad leaves his peaceful family life on the banks of the Tigris to join the British led revolt. Thousands of miles away, Welsh teenager Carwyn reluctantly enlists and is sent, via Gallipoli and Egypt, to the Mesopotamia campaign. Carwyns and Ahmads paths cross, and their fates are