In Search of Ali Mahmoud
In Search of Ali Mahmoud
Written by: Vivian Gornick
Publisher: Dutton (October 1, 1973)
Ms. Gornick, noted as a Women’s Libber (she coedited Woman in Sexist Society) made this trip on account of a man – Ali Mahmoud, a Harvard grad and Arab who played Romeo to her Jewish–American Juliet. Ali’s family in Cairo, hosting her in his absence, advised concealment of her ethnic origins which she did for the most part, sleeping with one of his many cousins, until she let that cat out of the bag inopportunely.
—Kirkus Reviews