The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
Leon Lagnado was a man-about-town in Cairo, but when Nasser took charge, Jews were no longer welcome in Egypt. Wall Street Journal reporter, Lucette Lagnado, writes about her father's love affair with Cairo and evokes the world he left behind in her memoir, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit. Jonathan Kirsch talks with her on The Politics of Culture.
By Sarah Spitz • • 1 min readLeon Lagnado was a man-about-town in Cairo, but when Nasser took charge, Jews were no longer welcome in Egypt. Wall Street Journal reporter, Lucette Lagnado, writes about her father's love affair with Cairo and evokes the world he left behind in her memoir, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit. Jonathan Kirsch talks with her on The Politics of Culture.