TY  - BOOK
AU  - John Rodenbeck
AU  - Mursi Saad El Din مرسي سعدالدين
TI  - Reading Egypt: Literature, History, and Culture
SN  - 9774245466
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Cairo
PB  - The American University in Cairo Press
KW  - English
KW  - General
N1  - 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
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