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Cairo

By Max Rodenbeck

Cairo

By Max Rodenbeck

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Al-Qahira: Her Arab conquerors called her "the Victorious", and over the course of her 5,000-year history Cairo has richly merited the name. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander the Great to Saladin to Napoleon, Cairo has never ceased reinventing herself. Max Rodenbeck, a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, provides a dazzling cultural excavation of this most ancient and multifaceted of cities -- from its Pharaonic beginnings to its heyday as the most glittering metropolis of the Middle Ages, from its subjugation by the Turks and British to its emergence as the modern capital of Arab nationalism. Whether he is exploring a belly-dance theater or a medieval mosque, a hashish den or a dusty bazaar, Rodenbeck brings Cairo to life in all its chaotic beauty. A remarkable fusion of travel and history, Cairo: The City Victorious is an epic, resonant work.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
300
Release Date:
2000-02-01
Publication Date:
2000-02-22
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679767274
ISBN13:
9780679767275
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
275 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
204 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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