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Author:

Belli, Mériam N.

Title:

An incurable past : Nasser's Egypt then and now / Mériam N. Belli.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Egypt--History--1952-1970.
Egypt--Politics and government--1952-1970.
Egypt--Social conditions--1952-1970.
Port Said (Egypt)--History.
Nasser, Gamal Abdel,--1918-1970.
Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles--Cairo.--Cairo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0813044049 (alk. paper)
9780813044040 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)806013186

LCCN:

2013007063

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)