An incurable past : Nasser's Egypt then and now / / Meriam N. Belli.
A look at the interplay between human experience and its cultural representations in mid-twentieth-century Egypt.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 295 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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?".