Those who’re fans of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, of Philip Marlowe, and of Humphrey Bogart movies, might find this little article interesting, about the resurgence of noir fiction . . . in Cairo:
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/20/the-case-of-the-arabic-noirs/
Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for alerting me to it.