Cairo A Cultural History

Name: Cairo A Cultural History
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ISBN: 9780195178937

ISBN-10: 0195178939

ISBN-13: 9780195178937

Edition: 2004

Authors: Andrew Beattie

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

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List price: $60.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/6/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction : the view from the tower



Pharaonic Cairo



Christian and Jewish Cairo



Islamic Cairo



Colonial Cairo



Towards the twenty-first century city