Amber birds

Number of pages: 466 pages "Amber Birds" is the second part of the "Alexandria Trilogy" project by Ibrahim Abdel Megid. While "No One Sleeps in Alexandria" received the Best Novel Award at the Cairo International Book Fair in 1996 and depicts the city's history during World War II, "Amber Birds" covers the period after the announcement of the Suez Canal nationalization and the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt in 1956, and the departure of thousands of foreigners, and what this sudden change caused in the near-complete transformation of this cosmopolitan city where Egyptians, Greeks, Italians, French, British, Jews, and others lived in harmony and peace, and for its street names to suddenly change from Cavafy, Papadopulo, and Herodotus to Amr ibn al-As, Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, Saad ibn Abi Waqqas, and from the streets of Aegisthus, Achilles, Rhamulus, and Philoctetes to Khalid ibn al-Walid, Al-Muthanna ibn Haritha Al-Shibani, Musa ibn Nusayr, and Tariq ibn Ziyad.