Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring 20s censorship issues But just days before his

But just days before his release

who he claims is the great manÕs cousin

North Africa to the Steppes

who swears she has seen a jaguar prowling the city

of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week Around the turn of the twentieth century young pianist Brodie Moncur quits Edinburgh's slate skies for the lights of Paris

Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring 20s censorship issues But just days before hisRaphael Cormack 1920s Cairo saw singers pressing hit records, new theaters and dramatic troupes springing up, and cabarets packeda counter culture was on the rise. In bars, hash dens and music halls, people of all classes and backgrounds came together as a passionate group of eccentrics, narcissists, and idealists strove to entertain Egyptian society. Of these performers, Cairos biggest stars were female, and they asserted themselves on the stage like