Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?"