Alexandria in a cloud

The novel "Alexandria in a Cloud" is the third part of the Alexandria Trilogy by Ibrahim Abdel Megid, and the three works form a trilogy about the city in different manifestations, so it can be read consecutively, and each novel can also be read independently of the others. This novel is about the city in the seventies of the last century, and how a new wave of religiously extremist thought appeared in the city, allied with the political regime, to make the city abandon its Egyptian spirit, and for places and people's habits to change; tolerance recede, and its Egyptian spirit bid farewell, along with what remained of its cosmopolitan spirit.