| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 295 pages :) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles -- Egypt -- Cairo.
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Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918-1970.
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Egypt -- History -- 1952-1970.
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Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1952-1970.
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Egypt -- Social conditions -- 1952-1970.
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Port Said (Egypt) -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013007063 |
| ISBN |
0813044049 (alk. paper) |
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0813045045 (e-book) |
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9780813044040 (alk. paper) |
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9780813045047 (e-book) |
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