Cairo : From Edge to Edge

Name: Cairo : From Edge to Edge
Price: 13.12 USD
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ISBN: 9789774244957

ISBN-10: 9774244958

ISBN-13: 9789774244957

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sun'Allah Ibrahim, Jean P. Ribiere

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The Mother of the World as seen through the lens of French photographer Jean Pierre Ribire and the pen of Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim. The result is a rich and highly original portrait of a city. Ribire's seventy powerful photographs capture fugitive moments in urban life and architecture, in which historic grandeur meets modernity in a race with time. Meanwhile, Sonallah Ibrahim's incisive exploration of Cairo's past and his own past reveals a man living on the edge of a city living on the edge of itself.

Book details

Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 9.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Born in Cairo and trained as a lawyer, Ibrahim chose a career of journalism. He was imprisoned for five years (1959--64) because of his political activities. In 1968 he went to Lebanon, then to East Berlin, and later to Moscow, where he studied cinema.