Cairo's Street Stories Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, Garden, and Sidewalk Cafes

Name: Cairo's Street Stories Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, Garden, and Sidewalk Cafes
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ISBN: 9789774161537

ISBN-10: 977416153X

ISBN-13: 9789774161537

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Authors: Lesley Lababidi

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In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic message of the continuing authority of the ruling Muhammad Ali dynasty to which he belonged, but it was not until the early twentieth century and the determination of sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar that such public art gained general acceptance, and today statues stand, ride, or sit in the streets, squares, and gardens of Cairo. Each sculpture adds a piece to the jigsaw of history spanning personalities and events that shaped the city and wider Egypt from 1805 to 1970, and here Cairo-based author Lesley Lababidi provides a unique perspective on…

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List price: $24.95
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 4/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.60" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

LESLEY LABABIDI raised three children in Cairo and is the author of Silent No More: Special Needs People in Egypt (AUC Press, 2002).



Acknowledgments


Eclectic City


Cairo is...an 'Ahwa


River City


Virgin City, 640-1270


Medieval City, 1270-1517


Oriental City, 1517-1801


Cairo is ... a Gineina


Egyptian City, 1801-Today


Cairo is ... a Midan


Muhammad Ali and Modernization, 1805-82



Nationalism and Independence, 1882-1952



Revolution and Political Reform, 1952-70



Cairo is...a Kubri


The Sculptors


How to Clean a Statue


Notes


Bibliography


Index