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Cairo, March 2000
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The City Victorious
Vintage
March 2000
On Sale: February 22, 2000
320 pages
ISBN: 0679767274
EAN: 9780679767275
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Non-Fiction
From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in
Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most
ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of
pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander
to Saladin to Napoleon, Cairo--nicknamed "the
Victorious"--has never ceased reinventing
herself. With intimate knowlege, humor, and affection,
Rodenbeck takes us on an insider's tour of the magnificent
city: its backstreets and bazaars, its belly-dance theaters
and hashish dens, its crowded slums and fashionable salons,
its incomparably rich past and its challenging future.
Cairo: The City Victorious is a unique blend of
travel and history, an epic, resonant work that brings one
of the world's great metropolises to life in all its dusty,
chaotic beauty.
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