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An incurable past Nasser's Egypt then and now
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An incurable past [electronic resource] : Nasser's Egypt then and now / Mériam N. Belli.
ISBN
9780813044040 (alk. paper)
9780813045047 (e-book)
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
Physical Description
xii, 295 p. : ill.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Summary
A look at the interplay between human experience and its cultural representations in mid-twentieth-century Egypt.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 09, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: This incurable otherness
Part I: Retelling Salah al-Din : the future is everything
1. Farouk is gone, long live the revolution
2. The new order
Part II: Burn, Edmund, burn : the present is everything
3. When Edmund Allenby became al-Limby
4. Port Said, martyr city
5. The end of history
Part III: St. Mary, mother of Egypt : the past is everything
6. The science of miracles
7. Globalizing the virgin, nationalizing religion
Conclusion: "What revolution?".
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