Cairo The City Victorious

Name: Cairo The City Victorious
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ISBN: 9780679767275

ISBN-10: 0679767274

ISBN-13: 9780679767275

Edition: N/A

Authors: Max Rodenbeck

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From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to Saladin to Napoleon, Cairo--nicknamed "the Victorious"--has never ceased reinventing herself. With intimate knowlege, humor, and affection, Rodenbeck takes us on an insider's tour of the magnificent city: its backstreets and bazaars, its belly-dance theaters and hashish dens, its crowded slums and fashionable salons, its incomparably rich past and its challenging future. Cairo: The City Victorious is a unique blend of travel and history, an epic,…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/22/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.18" wide x 7.97" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



An Orientation



Beginnings



Dead Cities



Cities of the Dead



Mother of the World



Medieval Decline



The Phoenix Caged



Where Worlds Collide



Conflict and Fusion



Keeping the Faith



High Life, Low Life



The Voice of Cairo


Glossary


Bibliography


Index