Scorpion Scheme by Melissa Yi
Montreal’s Dr. Hope Sze fights to save a man caught in a Cairo bomb blast. The man may hold the key to the Kruger Millions, a rumoured fortune in buried gold.
Egypt
Daughter of Here by Ioana Georgescu, translated by Katia Grubisic
Daughter of Here is an experiment in memory, desire, and time. As she sifts through an international whirlwind romance with Célestin, her larger-than-life love for her daughter Mo, and her own childhood behind the Iron Curtain, Dolores's narrative shifts from Williamsburg, to Tokyo, to Bucharest before and after the fall, and to Cairo at the first spark of the Arab Spring. Filmic and thought-provoking, this novel straddles the political and the personal with ease and eloquence.
The Philistine by Leila Marshy
Nadia Eid doesn't know it yet, but she's about to change her life. It's the end of the '80s and she hasn't seen her Palestinian father since he left Montreal years ago to take a job in Egypt, promising to bring her with him. But now she's twenty-five and he's missing in action, so she takes matters into her own hands.