The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
Diederik Vandewalle, Associate Professor of Government
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I’ve been reading The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado — a poignant memoir of Leon Lagnado and his family who, like thousands of others, had to flee Egypt when Gamal Abdel Nasser’s 1952 revolution took place. For those who intimately know Cairo, the book contains wonderful vignettes of Groppi’s and a hundred similar places that were once de rigueur for any self-respecting, middle-class Cairene.