An incurable past [electronic resource] : Nasser's Egypt then and now / M�eriam N. Belli.
Publication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.Description: xii, 295 p. : illISBN:- 9780813044040 (alk. paper)
- 9780813045047 (e-book)
- 962.05/3 23
- DT107.83 .B46 2013eb
eBooks
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.