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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821463603321

Autore

Belli Mériam N

Titolo

An incurable past : Nasser's Egypt then and now / / Mériam N. Belli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013

ISBN

0-8130-4623-8

0-8130-4504-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Disciplina

962.05/3

Soggetti

Egypt History 1952-1970

Egypt Politics and government 1952-1970

Egypt Social conditions 1952-1970

Port Said (Egypt) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?".

Sommario/riassunto

A look at the interplay between human experience and its cultural representations in mid-twentieth-century Egypt.