The other Cairo

Is "The Other Cairo" a memoir or a biography of a life at one stage of this life? It can be asserted that Rachid Yahyaoui did in fact experience the narrative in "The Other Cairo." However, the nature of the narrative, which refers us to various diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, places us before the act of writing, as a narrative game, as methods of construction, and as the narrator's guidance of his narrative towards what is narrated to him. The image of this narrative remains vague a...