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An incurable past : Nasser's Egypt then and now / Mériam N. Belli.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belli, Mériam N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Egypt--History--1952-1970.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Politics and government--1952-1970.
- Egypt--Social conditions--1952-1970.
- Port Said (Egypt)--History.
- Port Said (Egypt).
- Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918-1970.
- Nasser, Gamal Abdel.
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles--Egypt--Cairo.
- Mary.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A look at the interplay between human experience and its cultural representations in mid-twentieth-century Egypt.
- 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?".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4623-8
- 0-8130-4504-5
- OCLC:
- 851972579
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