An incurable past
Belli, Mériam N.
An incurable past Nasser's Egypt then and now / [electronic resource] : Mériam N. Belli. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013. - xii, 295 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?".
A look at the interplay between human experience and its cultural representations in mid-twentieth-century Egypt.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918-1970.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint --Apparitions and miracles--Egypt--Cairo.
Egypt--History--1952-1970.
Egypt--Politics and government--1952-1970.
Egypt--Social conditions--1952-1970.
Port Said (Egypt)--History.
Electronic books.
DT107.83 / .B46 2013eb
962.05/3
An incurable past Nasser's Egypt then and now / [electronic resource] : Mériam N. Belli. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013. - xii, 295 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?".
A look at the interplay between human experience and its cultural representations in mid-twentieth-century Egypt.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918-1970.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint --Apparitions and miracles--Egypt--Cairo.
Egypt--History--1952-1970.
Egypt--Politics and government--1952-1970.
Egypt--Social conditions--1952-1970.
Port Said (Egypt)--History.
Electronic books.
DT107.83 / .B46 2013eb
962.05/3