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During the 1956 Suez War-or the Tripartite Aggression, as it is known in Egypt-life in Alexandria goes on. The railroad workers and their families live in the low-income housing of el-Masakin, along the Mahmudiya Canal, but some of them take us on forays into the other, cosmopolitan Alexandria, whos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Cairo :
American University in Cairo Press,
[2005]
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| Colección: | Modern Arabic literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | During the 1956 Suez War-or the Tripartite Aggression, as it is known in Egypt-life in Alexandria goes on. The railroad workers and their families live in the low-income housing of el-Masakin, along the Mahmudiya Canal, but some of them take us on forays into the other, cosmopolitan Alexandria, whose European denizens, mainly Greeks, Italians, and Jews are departing in droves. This spellbinding novel teems with memorable characters, not a few of whom are themselves storytellers: a budding novelist writing about el-Masakin and its eccentric denizens and about his own improbable love affair with. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (432 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781617974038 161797403X 9781617971426 1617971421 |
| Acceso: | Legal Deposit; |