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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.Description: xii, 295 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 962.05/3 23
LOC classification:
  • DT107.83 .B46 2013eb
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Contents:
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?".
Summary: A look at the interplay between human experience and its cultural representations in mid-twentieth-century Egypt.
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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.

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