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What is Cairo about?
xii, 370 pages : 25 cm The political, social, economic, and cultural expression of consciousness during Cairo's existence is thoroughly examined in this popular account as are the dominant personalities, past and present, from the Pharaohs to Napoleon to Nasser Includes bibliographical references and index Foundations -- Dynastic Cairo -- Heliopolis -- Babylon -- Fustat -- Fustat-Askar-Katai -- Fustat-Misr -- Al Kahira -- Saladin's Cairo -- Ottoman Cairo -- Napoleon's Cairo -- Mohammed Ali's Cairo -- Europeanized Cairo -- Cromer's Cairo -- Revolutionary Cairo -- The end of occupation -- Egyptian Cairo: Survival, 1952-1956 -- National consciousness, 1956-1962 -- The European memory -- The medieval city now -- The new city -- The morals and the manners -- The intellectual city -- The destiny of necessity
- Author
- James Aldridge
- Publisher
- Boston: Little, Brown
- Published
- 1969
- Language
- EN
- Subjects
- Travel, History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.54 / 5 (513 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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