The Cairo HouseSamia Serageldin's heroine, the daughter of a politically prominent, land owning Egyptian family, witnesses the changes sweeping her homeland. Looking back to the glamorous Egypt of the pashas and King Faruk, Serageldin moves forward to the police state of the colonels who seized power in 1952 and the disastrous consequences of Nasser's sequestration policies. Through well chosen portraits and telling descriptions of the era's fashions and