Reading Egypt : literature, history, and culture / edited by John Rodenbeck ; foreword by Mursi Saad El-Din.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodenbeck, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egypt--Civilization.

Egypt.

Civilization.

Egypt--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

x, 314 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, [2000]

Contents:

Arabic literature. At the door of the Azhar / Taha Hussein ; How I failed the ʹAlim's examination / Taha Hussein ; The dialogue of late afternoon / Nadine Gordimer ; Echoes of an autobiography / Naguib Mahfouz ; The time and the place / Naguib Mahfouz ; Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz ; Benevolence / Sabry Moussa ; Games / Naim Attia ; Rhythms in slow time / Yahya Taher Abdullah

The city of Cairo. Al-Fustat / Wladyslaw B. Kubiak ; Ibn Tulun / Desmond Stewart ; The Mahhad al-Juyushi / Farid Shafeʻi ; Ayyubid Cairo / Neil D. MacKenzie ; Restoration of the mausoleum of al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub / Nairy Hampikian ; A Polish-Egyptian restoration project at the Eastern Cemetery in Cairo / Jaroslaw Dobrowolski ; The role of the communities in the administration of Ottoman Cairo / André Raymond ; Cairo : the cosmopolitan years / Cynthia Myntti ; Cairo from edge to edge / Sonallah Ibrahim ; High life, low life / Max Rodenbeck

Egypt past and present. Religion in early civilizations / Bruce G. Trigger ; Scent for love and rebirth / Lise Manniche ; The Paris obelisk / Lahib Habachi ; The temple of Medinet Habu / William J. Murnane ; Changes in Egyptian military organization under Muhammad Ali / Fred H. Lawson ; The emergence of a new rural order, 1842-58 / Kenneth M. Cuno ; Of crowds and empires : Euro-Egyptian conflict / Juan R. I. Cole ; Courts and the administration of justice in the modern era / Enid Hill ; Presidential wives / Earl L. Sullivan ; Etatisme versus privatization : the changing economic role of the state in Egypt / Nazih Ayubi ; Circumcision and excision ceremonies in Old Nubia / John G. Kennedy ; Egyptian fauna in Winter / Richard Hoath ; Camels / Ahmed Fakhry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-314).

ISBN:

9774245466

OCLC:

45882292