The Book of Cairo is an anthology of ten stories from various Egyptian writers, edited by Raph Cormack and published on 16 June 2019. It is the eleventh book of the Reading the City series, focused on stories from and about a certain city, in this case Cairo in Egypt.
The Book of Cairo was included in "World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2019".
Elisabeth Jaquette was also involved in translation for The Book of Gaza and Yasmine Seale also for The Book of Ramallah.
Raph Cormack wrote for World Literature Today, that the book is a "successful attempt to capture the essence of Egyptian storytelling in the wake of mass social change and shared trauma". Poupeh Missaghi wrote for Asymptote Journal, that "has no need for camels or pyramids or an exaggeration of whatever the Western eye is looking for. Reading it feels like sitting in a cafe in Cairo with young literary men and women, listening to their stories that dig deep into what Cairo is and is not." James Holden wrote for The Short Story Publishing, that the book is "an entertaining and varied collection."