Ironically, we find that the "Egyptian" characters of Miramar suffer from an identity crisis unlike the "foreign" characters in Cocktails and Camels. The approach to the social classes in the two novels was peculiar. Jacqueline depicted the life of the rich class and Naguib in the other side gave a concern for the new emerged class in Alexandria, which is the lower middle class. Nonetheless, both writers expressed the sense of loss and the longing for the old beautiful cosmopolitan Alexandria. Each writer depicted in his/her own way the vanishing process of Cosmopolitan Alexandria in politics, economy and society. Lastly, we can say Jacquline portrayed the pre-revolution Alexandria as a city of dreams, in contrary to Naguib who portrayed it as city of the lost
Ironically, we find that the "Egyptian" characters of Miramar suffer from an identity crisis unlike the "foreign" characters in Cocktails and Camels. The approach to the social classes in the two novels was peculiar. Jacqueline depicted the life of the rich class and Naguib in the other side gave a concern for the new emerged class in Alexandria, which is the lower middle class. Nonetheless, both writers expressed the sense of loss and the longing for the old beautiful cosmopolitan Alexandria. Each writer depicted in his/her own way the vanishing process of Cosmopolitan Alexandria in politics, economy and society. Lastly, we can say Jacquline portrayed the pre-revolution Alexandria as a city of dreams, in contrary to Naguib who portrayed it as city of the lost