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100	1		_aHagg, Michael
245	1	0	_aAlexandria _bCity of memory _cMichael Hagg
250			_a1 st
264		0	_aCairo _b _american University in Cairo Press _c2004
300			_a368 pages _billustrations _c23 سم
336			_aنص
337			_aبدون وسيط
338			_aكتاب
500			_aIn the decades before Nasser's seizure of power and the Suez crisis, Alexandria was a magnet for the wealthy, the gifted, and the glamorous from around the world. The whole city looked seaward, its port one of the busiest in the Mediterranean, its spirit ecumenical, its life luxuriant and sensual. Alexandria was barely an Egyptian city, and the Egyptians who live there now inhabit the gently crumbling remains of a foreign world, whose palatial villas, Venetian apartments, art-nouveau cafes, Moorish hotels, and cinemas conceived in thirties deco, are haunted by a departed cast. "I lived a great, extravagant, and colorful life in wartime Alexandria," recalled Lawrence Durrell, whose Alexandria Quartet is one of the greatest protraits of a city in modern literature. Michael Haag, who has lived in Alexandria, and has known Durrell and others who lived there during its cosmopolitan heyday, has retraced their footsteps to present an absorbing account of the places and the people of this most remarkable of cities
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650	1	4	_aAlexandria _xDescription
650	1	4	_aAlexandria _xHistory
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