Author : Ruth H. Sohn
Publisher : Gaon Web
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9781935604501
Rabbi Sohn has written an exceptional family portrait of the experience of living in Egypt with her husband and children. Advised not to share the fact that they are Jewish, they discover what it means to hide and then increasingly share their identity.
Author : Ian Bassingthwaighte
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501146874
After being denied permission to join her husband in America, an Iraqi refugee is trapped in Cairo during the aftermath of the 2011 revolution and must rely on a foolhardy attorney with feelings for her and a not entirely legal plan to get her out.
Author : Leila Ahmed
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0143121928
An Egyptian woman's reflections on her changing homeland—updated with an afterword on the Arab Spring In language that vividly evokes the lush summers of Cairo and the stark beauty of the Arabian desert, Leila Ahmed movingly recounts her Egyptian childhood growing up in a rich tradition of Islamic women and describes how she eventually came to terms with her identity as a feminist living in America. As a young woman in Cairo in the forties and fifties, Ahmed witnessed some of the major transformations of this century—the end of British colonialism, the rise of Arab nationalism, and the breakdown of Egypt's once multireligious society. As today's Egypt continues to undergo revolutionary change, Ahmed's inspirational story remains as poignant and relevant as ever.
Author : Diane Singerman
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1617973904
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradictions and juxtapositions that are coming to define today's Middle East. The original publication of this volume launched the Cairo School of Urban Studies, committed to fusing political-economy and ethnographic methods and sensitive to ambivalence and contingency, to reveal the new contours and patterns of modern power emerging in the urban frame. Contributors: Mona Abaza, Nezar AlSayyad, Paul Amar, Walter Armbrust, Vincent Battesti, Fanny Colonna, Eric Denis, Dalila ElKerdany, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Farha Ghannam, Galila El Kadi, Anouk de Koning, Petra Kuppinger, Anna Madoeuf, Catherine Miller, Nicolas Puig, Said Sadek, Omnia El Shakry, Diane Singerman, Elizabeth A. Smith, Leïla Vignal, Caroline Williams.
Author : John Roy Carlson
Publisher : Carlson Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1406756628
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Illinois. Public Utilities Commission
Publisher :
Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 1918
Category :
ISBN :
Author : United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers
Publisher :
Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Salwa Ismail
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
ISBN : 9781452908991
Author : Wilber W. Caldwell
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780865547483
Their songs insist that the arrival of the railroad and the appearance of the tiny depot often created such hope that it inspired the construction of the architectural extravaganzas that were the courthouses of the era. In these buildings the distorted myth of the Old South collided head-on with the equally deformed myth of the New South."
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
