Alexandria-born writer of a Sephardic family that left Egypt in 1965. His memoir Out of Egypt recalls Alexandria's Jews, and his novel Call Me by Your Name became an Oscar-winning film.
Novelist · b. 1951
Alexandria-born writer of a Sephardic family that left Egypt in 1965. His memoir Out of Egypt recalls Alexandria's Jews, and his novel Call Me by Your Name became an Oscar-winning film.
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