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

• Autore: Belli Mériam N
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Disciplina: 962.05/3
• Soggetto geografico: Egypt History 1952-1970; Egypt Politics and government 1952-1970; Egypt Social conditions 1952-1970; Port Said (Egypt) History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: An incurable past
• ISBN: 0-8130-4623-8; 0-8130-4504-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452606103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II