Author: André Raymond
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: cairo
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2002-11-30
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0674009967
ISBN-13: 9780674009967
Gaze toward the Nile from the desert hills of Mukattam, and the vast city of Cairo unfolds before you, with its monumental architecture, teeming populace, and thousands of years of rich history. The extraordinary tapestry of Cairo’s past and present comes vividly to life in this magisterial study by André Raymond, arguably the premier social historian of the Arab world. The most deeply observed and historically nuanced account ever given of the greatest Arab city of northern Africa, this book shows us Cairo from the glimmer of its beginnings in the Arab conquest of Egypt in 640 throug
Author: Andre Raymond
Publisher: Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books
Keywords: cairo
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2003-10-30
List price: $49.98
ISBN-10: 0789310228
ISBN-13: 9780789310224
This deluxe, oversized book is an important and definitive illustrated history of Cairo, Egypt’s capital and the largest city in the Middle East and Africa. This book chronicles the region’s history from before it was founded in 969 A.D. to the present. Cairo has been conquered many times and each of the reigns are presented here-from its founding father through the reigns of the dynasties of Saladin, the Ayyubites, and the Mamluks, the conquest by the Ottoman Empire, the ousting of the French in 1801 and return to Ottoman control under Muhammad Ali. Over 600 full-color photographs
Author: André Raymond
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: cairo
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-01-29
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0674003160
ISBN-13: 9780674003163
Gaze toward the Nile from the desert hills of Mukattam, and the vast city of Cairo unfolds before you, with its monumental architecture, teeming populace, and thousands of years of rich history. The extraordinary tapestry of Cairo’s past and present comes vividly to life in this magisterial study by André Raymond, arguably the premier social historian of the Arab world. The most deeply observed and historically nuanced account ever given of the greatest Arab city of northern Africa, this book shows us Cairo from the glimmer of its beginnings in the Arab conquest of Egypt in 640 thr
Author: Michael Haag
Publisher: American University in Cairo Pre
Keywords: illustrated, cairo
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 9774249356
ISBN-13: 9789774249358
Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis of eighteen million people that nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world, its alleys, mosques, and caravanserais the original setting for the Arabian Nights, whose atmosphere is palpable still for the visitor wandering through its bazaars, while at sunset the Pyramids glow gold against the Western Desert as they have done for one million seven hundred thousand evenings past. The monuments of pharaohs and sultans lie within the citys reach, making Cairo and its environs an unequaled storehouse of human achievement. I
Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: modern, cairo
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0307473538
ISBN-13: 9780307473530
In Naguib Mahfouz’s suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois.Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also a time of change, when the universities have just opened to women and heady new philosophies imported from Europe are stirring up debates among the young. Mahgub is a fiercely proud student who is determined to keep both his poverty and his lack of principles secret from his idealistic friends. When he finds that there are no jobs for those wi
Author: Cairo
Publisher: Strebor Books
Keywords: presents, zane, handler, man
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 159309275X
ISBN-13: 9781593092757
Bianca Rivers has an overpowering love and passion for sexuality, and the ability to satisfy it without fear or regret. She makes no excuses for her highly charged libido as she shares her fantasies and explosive sexual encounters. Embracing her womanhood and indulging in her sexual desires without regret, Bianca satisfies her urges with any man willing to feed her insatiable appetite. But what will happen when one of the men decides that he wants to love her and be in a true relationship? Will Bianca be able to resist a man who fits her perfectly and is determined to take things to the next l
Author: John Roy Carlson
Publisher: Carlson Press
Keywords: damascus, cairo
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $33.45
ISBN-10: 1406756628
ISBN-13: 9781406756623
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
