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The Pistachio Seller R E E M B A S S I O U N E Y Translated from the Arabic by Osman Nusairi Syracuse University Press English language edition copyright © 2009 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2009 09 10 11 12 13 14 6 5 4 3 2 1 Originally published as Bai’ al-fustuq by Madbuly publishers in Cairo (2006). ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN-13: 978-0 8156-0919-3 (cloth) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bassiouney, Reem. [Ba’i’ al-fustuq. English] The pistachio seller / Reem Bassiouney ; translated from the Arabic by Osman Nusairi. — 1st English language ed. p. cm. — (Middle East literature in translation) ISBN 978-0-8156-0919-3 (cloth : alk. paper) I. Nusairi, Osman. II. Title. PJ7816.A768B3513 2009 892.7'36—dc22 2009026110 Manufactured in the United States of America [3.81.13.254] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 10:42 GMT) To my parents, Nour El-Hoda and Ahmed Refaat. You are always the first to read my work and to laugh and cry with my characters. [3.81.13.254] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 10:42 GMT) Egypt is now ready for pistachios. —Wafaa You can defeat reality with a lot of imagination. —Anon. REEM BASSIOUNEY was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1973. She graduated from Alexandria University, Faculty of Arts, English department. Since then she has taught in various universities including Alexandria University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Utah, and Georgetown University. She was also a radio announcer in Egypt and a freelance journalist and writer. She left Egypt at the age of twenty-three to study for her master’s and doctoral degrees at Oxford. Before doing so she worked for two years as a lecturer at Alexandria University and taught at the branch of Alexandria university in Damanhour (a provincial town sixty miles from Alexandria, the place where most of The Pistachio Seller takes place). The Pistachio Seller has been voted the best novel of the year 2006 by Al-Sharq al-Awsat magazine and also by the International Alexandria library literary committee (2007). Bassiouney is assistant professor at Georgetown University. She is the author of three other novels, The Smell of the Sea (2005), Professor Hanaa (2007) and Love, Arab Style (2009), as well as a number of short stories. Reem Bassiouney currently lives in Virginia with her husband and two children. ...