Book Name: Dreaming of Palestine
Publisher: The American University In Cairo Press, 2003
Author: Ghazy, Randa
Pages: 182 pp
Description: “The Children of the Alley” is a novel by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that guides readers through the history of an alley whose denizens, some fearsome, most fearful, and a few fearless, are all descendants of one man, Gabalawi, who now keeps himself hidden away in the mansion at the top of the alley.