‘The Children of Nut and Other Myths’: Re-imagining Ancient Egyptian Tales
Published by Takween in 2024, Egyptian novelist Muhamad A. Jamal’s أبناء نوت وأساطير أخرى : حكايات مصرية عتيقة (The Children of Nut and Other Myths: Ancient Egyptian Tales) promises to blow up your understanding of Egyptian myth and mythmaking and put it back together again, as a page-turning delight.
To celebrate the novel, we share from the book, join a conversation with author and translator, and take a look at the cast of characters.
The Introduction: ‘The Children of Nut and Other Myths’
In Conversation: Muhamad A. Jamal & James Scanlan on Making and Remaking Egyptian Myth
‘The Children of Nut’: A Cast of Characters
Excerpt from Muhamad A. Jamal’s ‘Flying’