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Egypt and the Nile : through writers' eyes / edited by Deborah Manley, Sahar Adel-Hakim.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 227 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9774161742
  • 9789774161742
Other title:
  • Through writers' eyes
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 916.2
LOC classification:
  • 513 DT 56 E32 2008
Contents:
Ra and his children / Roger Lancelyn Green -- The story of the Nile / Ahmad bin Tuwayr al-Janna -- The family life of the dead / Lady Evelyn Cobbold -- The downfall of the Nile / Pierre Loti -- Give me Arabic! / Robert Richardson -- An Alexandrian street / Robert Curzon -- Alexandria : the city of words / Michael Haag -- Alexandria, I am here / Naguib Mahfouz -- The evenings of Ramadan / Amitav Ghosh -- Rosatta : the home of the stone / E.M. Forster -- Mother of cities / Ibn Battuta -- A note on Misr and Cairo and some of their wonderful monuments / Ibn Jubayr -- The gossip of Cairo / Amin Mahlouf -- Going home / Taha Hussein -- An orientation / Max Rodenbeck -- The world around me / Jean Said Makdisi -- Through Cairo and to the Pyramids / H.J. Ross -- Tombs and paradise / Constance Sitwell -- Up the Nile, 1943 and 1993 / Dame Penelope Lively -- In the Fayoum : the beauty around / Lady Evelyn Cobbold -- Digging with Nefertiti / Mary Chubb -- This morning and tomorrow / H.V. Morton -- Dearest Mutter / Lucie Duff Gordon -- Early morning in Luxor Temple / Paul William Roberts -- On the otherside with the Pharoah / Marta Bibescu -- Luxor-Aswan return, 1980 / Deborah Manley -- Egyptian villages and their inhabitants / Winifred Blackman -- The inundation / William MacQuitty -- When we will have no land-- / Sayyid Qutb -- Crawling into a temple / R.R. Madden -- Exploring the Cataracts / Sir William Armstrong -- Days and nights at Ipsamboul / Florence Nightingale -- The coming of the High Dam / William MacQuitty -- Siwa Town / Charles Dalrymple Belgrave -- The "lost" oasis, Arkenu / Ahmed Hassanein -- Red Sea to Nile / James Hanson -- Centuries of monastic life / William Dalrymple -- Through Sinai to St. Catherine's / Ahdaf Soueif -- The traveller / Robin Fedden -- The story-teller's tale / Winifred Blackman -- Seeing the sights / Anthony Sattin -- The Sitt of the Theban Palace / Sarah Searight -- The dragoman's experiences / Mohammed Aboudi -- The tourist / Alan Bennett.
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Ra and his children / Roger Lancelyn Green -- The story of the Nile / Ahmad bin Tuwayr al-Janna -- The family life of the dead / Lady Evelyn Cobbold -- The downfall of the Nile / Pierre Loti -- Give me Arabic! / Robert Richardson -- An Alexandrian street / Robert Curzon -- Alexandria : the city of words / Michael Haag -- Alexandria, I am here / Naguib Mahfouz -- The evenings of Ramadan / Amitav Ghosh -- Rosatta : the home of the stone / E.M. Forster -- Mother of cities / Ibn Battuta -- A note on Misr and Cairo and some of their wonderful monuments / Ibn Jubayr -- The gossip of Cairo / Amin Mahlouf -- Going home / Taha Hussein -- An orientation / Max Rodenbeck -- The world around me / Jean Said Makdisi -- Through Cairo and to the Pyramids / H.J. Ross -- Tombs and paradise / Constance Sitwell -- Up the Nile, 1943 and 1993 / Dame Penelope Lively -- In the Fayoum : the beauty around / Lady Evelyn Cobbold -- Digging with Nefertiti / Mary Chubb -- This morning and tomorrow / H.V. Morton -- Dearest Mutter / Lucie Duff Gordon -- Early morning in Luxor Temple / Paul William Roberts -- On the otherside with the Pharoah / Marta Bibescu -- Luxor-Aswan return, 1980 / Deborah Manley -- Egyptian villages and their inhabitants / Winifred Blackman -- The inundation / William MacQuitty -- When we will have no land-- / Sayyid Qutb -- Crawling into a temple / R.R. Madden -- Exploring the Cataracts / Sir William Armstrong -- Days and nights at Ipsamboul / Florence Nightingale -- The coming of the High Dam / William MacQuitty -- Siwa Town / Charles Dalrymple Belgrave -- The "lost" oasis, Arkenu / Ahmed Hassanein -- Red Sea to Nile / James Hanson -- Centuries of monastic life / William Dalrymple -- Through Sinai to St. Catherine's / Ahdaf Soueif -- The traveller / Robin Fedden -- The story-teller's tale / Winifred Blackman -- Seeing the sights / Anthony Sattin -- The Sitt of the Theban Palace / Sarah Searight -- The dragoman's experiences / Mohammed Aboudi -- The tourist / Alan Bennett.

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