Under the Crescent

A sweeping epic of exile, endurance, and truth forgotten.From one of the most courageous and controversial historians of our time comes an electrifying trilogy of novelsMoses, Elie, and Ghazalthat bring to life the vanished world of Middle Eastern Jewry and Christianity and their dramatic dissolution under the rising tide of Arab nationalism and Islamist totalitarianism.Bat YeorDaughter of the Nile, exile of Nassers Egypt, and indomitable witness to the historical fate of Jews and Christians under Islamhas spent a lifetime unearthing hidden truths. Her nonfiction has challenged prevailing myths. Now, in this monumental work of fiction, she turns to the intimate and epic, portraying the human faces behind the centuries of dhimmitudea status of legal and spiritual inferiority imposed on non-Muslimsand the slow, devastating collapse of a civilization.Spanning the Cairo of the 19th century through the cataclysms of the World Wars to the final expulsion of Jews from Egypt in the 1950s, the trilogy follows generations of one Jewish family whose members fightthrough faith, rebellion, or resignationto remain anchored in a homeland that steadily unravels around them. At once historical document and literary masterwork, this is a tale of memory and mourning, of identities stifled and voices rising, of lives swallowed by the Niles muddy tide and yet luminous in their testimony.With moral clarity, historical rigor, and lyrical power, Bat Yeor renders an unforgettable account of the numberless victims of history and restores them to their rightful place in our collective memory.