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Cairo's street stories : exploring the city's statues, squares, bridges, gardens, and sidewalk cafés /

In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic message of the continuing authority of the ruling Muhammad Ali dynasty to which he belonged, but it was not until the early twentieth century and the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lababidi, Lesley Kitchen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cairo, Egypt : The American University in Cairo Press, 2008.
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