Adrift on the Nile ' History of Egypt' at school or at home

at school or at home

that he just happens to be the country's most eligible bachelor

a young Irish girl

to recent movements such as #MeToo and International Women's Day - and the key role women have had in shaping our past

Adrift on the Nile ' History of Egypt' at school or at homeNaguib Mahfouz It is the late sixties, and for the group of friends who meet night after night on the houseboat on the Nile, times have changed. Nasser has ushered in an age of enormous social change, and these middle aged sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie are left high and dry, to gather beneath the moonlight, to smoke and chat and inhabit a cosy and enchanted world. But one night art and reality collide with unforeseen consequences. In