THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO
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THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 1
6 parts · 39 h 37 min
Cairo, 1923. Nevine Mahran is twenty-four, publishes under her own name, and cannot find a newspaper in the city that will print her. Sherif Zohdi owns one, needs the revenue, and has a society column he cannot kill because it pays the wages of the political pages he believes in.
THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 2
5 parts · 28 h 39 min
Cairo, 1924. Wagida Zohdi has been in mourning for five years for a husband she was married to for six weeks, and the gray is not grief: it is the only costume that lets a woman of thirty keep a professional practice and refuse four hundred invitations without ever being asked why.
THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 3
5 parts · 25 h 29 min
Cairo and the Delta, 1926. Hussein Zohdi and the hakima he has worked beside for four years have never once been alone in a room that was not a sickroom, and there has never been a category available for what they are.
THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 4
6 parts · 26 h 34 min
Europe, 1927. Leila Zohdi is twenty-six, has perhaps four years of tennis left, and has been invited to play a circuit that is open only to people who do not need to be paid.
THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 5
6 parts · 28 h 21 min
Cairo, 1929. Tarek Mahran is three years sober, has a law degree he has never used, and keeps a list of forty-one people he ruined when he was drinking.
THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 6
5 parts · 24 h 14 min
Cairo, 1930. Marcelle Chédid's family have been in Egypt four generations and their papers fell between categories when the Ottoman Empire ended; the nationality she is applying for is granted at somebody's discretion and the application is going badly. An Egyptian husband would settle it.