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When Reem Abou Eid’s novel ‘Metropole,’ originally released in Arabic in 2017, appeared this year at the Cairo International Book Fair, newly translated into English, its presence carried the weight of survival. It is a story that had been written, stolen, litigated over for five years, and finally reborn in English for fresh readership. “When the work was taken from me, it felt like a part of my soul was stolen,” Abou Eid told Egyptian Streets. Abou Eid is a…