Cairo A Cultural History

Name: Cairo A Cultural History
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ISBN: 9780195178920

ISBN-10: 0195178920

ISBN-13: 9780195178920

Edition: 2004

Authors: Andrew Beattie

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Foreword by Penelope Lively Cairo is a city of extremes. On its chaotic streets BMWs driven by sharp-suited businessmen compete for space with donkey carts laden with farm produce. In its mosques the wealthy and the destitute pray side by side. The largest metropolis in Africa since the Middle Ages, it was in Ibn Battutah's words "the mother of cities." With a present-day population of around eighteen million, this sprawling metropolis is home to one thousand new migrants every day, drawn to the seething intensity of a modern, cosmopolitan capital that blends together the cultures of the Middle East and Europe. The fabled city on the banks of the River Nile, once home to pharaohs and…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction : the view from the tower



Pharaonic Cairo



Christian and Jewish Cairo



Islamic Cairo



Colonial Cairo



Towards the twenty-first century city