Cairo The City Victorious
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Full Title

Cairo The City Victorious
Author(s)

Max Rodenbeck
Edition
ISBN

9780525562986, 9780679767275
Publisher

Vintage
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to Saladin to Napoleon, Cairo–nicknamed “the Victorious”–has never ceased reinventing herself. With intimate knowlege, humor, and affection, Rodenbeck takes us on an insider’s tour of the magnificent city: its backstreets and bazaars, its belly-dance theaters and hashish dens, its crowded slums and fashionable salons, its incomparably rich past and its challenging future. Cairo: The City Victorious is a unique blend of travel and history, an epic, resonant work that brings one of the world’s great metropolises to life in all its dusty, chaotic beauty.

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