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Nibbies Pageturner winner Saara El-Arifi sets out to connect Cleopatra to modern womanhood

“She was beyond that: she was a scholar, she was a mother, she was a friend.”
Saara El-Arifi © Oliver Yoan
Saara El-Arifi © Oliver Yoan
In Saara El-Arifi’s first historical fiction novel, she seeks to connect the voice of Egypt’s last pharaoh with contemporary experiences of womanhood.

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