This review takes no risks, and appropriately so, since Tamar Yellin was also a recipient of the Sami Rohr prize a year prior. While I thought that Lagnado's book was rather cautious in its assessment of Jewish-Egyptian identity and migration - it glosses over the economic disparity between Muslims and Jews, Christians and Muslims, and places Jews firmly in festival of exotic customs and nationalist self-congratulation

Not to mention that the Sami Rohr Prize, created in 2006 to honor an emerging Jewish writer, was given to a senior reporter at the Wall Street Journal. Come again?