Only after making love with Isabel does 'Omar realize he was her mother's lover in 1961 and thus could be her father. 'Omar is deeply involved in Palestinian politics.
The anti-terrorist, anti-Islamist policies of Egypt's President Mubarak cause problems on the family lands, and revive Amal's late-1960s radicalism. Amal becomes engrossed in the characters, and Isabel falls in love with Amal's sister 'Omar. At a party she mentions the find to a prominent older musician, which is sent to his sister, Amal, in Cairo. This story emerges from research performed by Amal from a trunk load of journals and letters discovered in New York City by an American, Isabel Parkman. Contact is lost with her Egyptian in-laws. Sharif dies and Anna keeps her promise to take Nur to England. He is thinking of this when unknown assailants open fire on his carriage.
They have a daughter, Nur al-Hayyah - literally the light of their lives - and, ten years after their marriage, Sharif begins thinking about retiring to private life. Sharif works hard to fight the British Occupation legally and legislatively. They set aside the many problems this will create for each - Anna will be shunned by fellow Britons in Egypt, and Sharif will be suspected of British bias by his numerous political enemies -marry, and move into the old house with Sharif's mother Zeinab and hermitic father al-Baroudi, twenty years ago a rebel against the British.Īnna assimilates to Egyptian culture, learns Arabic, and is drawn into the nationalist movement as translator, intermediary with anti-colonialists in London, and finally spokesperson with foreign visitors. Layla points out her brother's mistake and he proposes marriage. He is silent upon their return, and Anna resolves to return to England. Catherine's Monastery, where Anna is an Arab woman, she and Sharif develop deep feelings for each other. In the desert of Sinai, where Anna dresses as an Arab man, and particularly in the garden at St. The wife of the protester, Layla, and Layla's attorney brother, Sharif, to whose home Anna is taken, are indignant for her sake, befriend her, and Sharif vows to help Anna reach her original goal. On the latter trip, allies of a political protester recently jailed kidnap her. Anna is too adventurous to be content with the staid tourism of the late 19th Century, and dresses in men's clothing to see the Pyramids and Mt. Egypt is a land she has heard much about and whose sights she has admired in museum paintings. The Map of Love tells the story of an artistic and articulate Englishwoman, Anna, who visits Egypt as a balm for the wounds of widowhood.
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