The literary life of Cairo : one hundred years in the heart of the city /
The literary life of Cairo : one hundred years in the heart of the city /
One hundred years in the heart of the city
edited and introduced by Samia Mehrez.
- Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, (c)2011.
- 1 online resource (xv, 433 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- -- Cairo, mother of cities, again and again -- Birds of passage / And Cairo burned / Walking through fire / In the eye of the sun / Broken soul / Homage to a belly dancer / Heads ripe for plucking / Broken soul / The day the leader was killed / The map of love / The assassination of the big man / I am free / A girl from Shubra / Pyramids road / Zamalek / Apricots on the Nile / Birds of passage / Mme Zitta Mendès, a last image / The Cairo house / Like a summer never to be repeated / The apartment of freedom / Heads ripe for plucking / Saint Theresa / The law of inheritance / The Yacoubian building / Thieves in retirement / Palace walk / In the house of Muhammad Ali / The days / Out of Egypt / A border passage / Pyramids road / Colored rbbons from my life / Out of place / I am free / Like a summer never to be repeated / The blue aubergine / Taxi / Palace walk / Harem years / The open door / And Cairo burned / Poor / Birds of passage / The novelists / The search : personal papers / A certain woman / Heads ripe for plucking / Wark rock / The heron / Zeenat marches in the president's funeral / Three suitcases for departure / The Yacoubian building / The Yacoubian building / Checkpoints / Taxi / The eye with an iron lid / The ostrich egg / The smell of it / Memoirs from the women's prison / Secret pleasures / The return of the spirit / Midaq Alley / Palace walk / The man who lost his shadow / The siren / Like a summer never to be repeated / Zaat / Frequent stops / In the eye of the sun / The golden chariot / Taxi / Barbed silk / I want to get married / Midaq Alley / Five unread papers / The story of the Upper Egyptian / A dog with no tail / Zeenat marches in the president's funeral / Cairo swan song / Farewell, Heaven / Poor / An interval for bewilderment / Kyrie Eleison / Adrift on the Nile / Did you have to turn on the light, Lili? / Saqqara grief / Proud beggars / Down to the sea / The Hashish waiter / In celebration of life / A dog with no tail / Ithaka / A tale with moral / Sleeping with strangers / An interval for bewilderment / A 1/4 gram / Cairo treason / Cairo from edge to edge / Robert Solé -- Ahamd Hussein -- Nawal El Saadawi -- Ahdaf Soueif -- Mohamed Mansi Qandil -- Edward Said -- Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- Mohamed Mansi Qandil -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Ahdaf Soueif -- Ibrahim Issa -- Ihsan Abdel Quddus -- Fathy Ghanem -- Midhat Gazalé -- Chafika Hamamsy -- Colette Rossant -- Robert Solé -- Alaa Al Aswany -- Samia Serageldin -- Mohamed Berrada -- Ghazi Abdel Rahman al-Qusaybi -- Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- Bahaa Abdelmegid -- Yasser Abdel Latif -- Alaa Al Aswany -- Hamdi Abu Golayyel -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Hassan Hassan -- Taha Hussein -- Ihab Hassan -- Leila Ahmed -- Midhat Gazalé -- Laila Osayran -- Edward Said -- Ihsan Abdel Quddus -- Mohamed Berrada -- Miral al-Tahawy -- Khaled Al Khamissi -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Huda Shaarawi -- Latifa al-Zayyat -- Ahmad Hussein -- Idris Ali -- Robert Solé -- Ghaleb Halasa -- Latifa al-Zayyat -- Hala El Badry -- Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- Radwa Ashour -- Ibrahim Aslan -- Salwa Bakr -- Mona Prince -- Alaa Al Aswany -- Alaa Al Aswany -- Mourid Barghouti -- Khaled Al Khamissi -- Sharif Hatatah -- Raouf Musad -- Sonallah Ibrahim -- Nawal El Saadawi -- Hamdi el-Gazzar -- Tawfiq al-Hakim -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Fathy Ghanem -- Yusuf Idris -- Mohamed Berrada -- Sonallah Ibrahim -- Mohamed Salah al-Azab -- Ahdaf Soueif -- Salwa Bakr -- Khaled Al Khamissi -- Amira Abou-Taleb -- Ghada Abdel Al -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Maguid Tobia -- Yahya Taher Abdullah -- Hamdi Abu Golayyel -- Salwa Bakr -- Mekkawi Said -- Hamid Abdel Samad -- Idris Ali -- Mohamed al-Fakharani -- Hani Abdel Mourid -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Yusuf Idris -- Ismail Wali al-Din -- Albert Cossery -- Gamil Atia Ibrahim -- Khairy Shalaby -- Yasser Abdel Hafez -- Hamdi Abu Golayyel -- Raouf Musad -- Yahya Taher Abdullah -- Bahaa Abdelmegid -- Mohamed al-Fakharani -- Essam Youssef -- Sherine Aboul Naga -- Sonallah Ibrahim.
Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion volume immerses the reader in the complex network of socioeconomic and cultural lives in the city. The seven chapters first introduce the reader to representations of some of Cairo's prominent profiles, both political and cultural, and their impact on the city's literary geography, before presenting a spectrum of readings of the city by its multiethnic, multinational, and multilingual writers across class, gender, and generation. Daunting images of colonial school experiences and star.
9781617974519 9781306492461 9781617971709
Electronic Books.
DT144 / .L584 2011
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- -- Cairo, mother of cities, again and again -- Birds of passage / And Cairo burned / Walking through fire / In the eye of the sun / Broken soul / Homage to a belly dancer / Heads ripe for plucking / Broken soul / The day the leader was killed / The map of love / The assassination of the big man / I am free / A girl from Shubra / Pyramids road / Zamalek / Apricots on the Nile / Birds of passage / Mme Zitta Mendès, a last image / The Cairo house / Like a summer never to be repeated / The apartment of freedom / Heads ripe for plucking / Saint Theresa / The law of inheritance / The Yacoubian building / Thieves in retirement / Palace walk / In the house of Muhammad Ali / The days / Out of Egypt / A border passage / Pyramids road / Colored rbbons from my life / Out of place / I am free / Like a summer never to be repeated / The blue aubergine / Taxi / Palace walk / Harem years / The open door / And Cairo burned / Poor / Birds of passage / The novelists / The search : personal papers / A certain woman / Heads ripe for plucking / Wark rock / The heron / Zeenat marches in the president's funeral / Three suitcases for departure / The Yacoubian building / The Yacoubian building / Checkpoints / Taxi / The eye with an iron lid / The ostrich egg / The smell of it / Memoirs from the women's prison / Secret pleasures / The return of the spirit / Midaq Alley / Palace walk / The man who lost his shadow / The siren / Like a summer never to be repeated / Zaat / Frequent stops / In the eye of the sun / The golden chariot / Taxi / Barbed silk / I want to get married / Midaq Alley / Five unread papers / The story of the Upper Egyptian / A dog with no tail / Zeenat marches in the president's funeral / Cairo swan song / Farewell, Heaven / Poor / An interval for bewilderment / Kyrie Eleison / Adrift on the Nile / Did you have to turn on the light, Lili? / Saqqara grief / Proud beggars / Down to the sea / The Hashish waiter / In celebration of life / A dog with no tail / Ithaka / A tale with moral / Sleeping with strangers / An interval for bewilderment / A 1/4 gram / Cairo treason / Cairo from edge to edge / Robert Solé -- Ahamd Hussein -- Nawal El Saadawi -- Ahdaf Soueif -- Mohamed Mansi Qandil -- Edward Said -- Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- Mohamed Mansi Qandil -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Ahdaf Soueif -- Ibrahim Issa -- Ihsan Abdel Quddus -- Fathy Ghanem -- Midhat Gazalé -- Chafika Hamamsy -- Colette Rossant -- Robert Solé -- Alaa Al Aswany -- Samia Serageldin -- Mohamed Berrada -- Ghazi Abdel Rahman al-Qusaybi -- Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- Bahaa Abdelmegid -- Yasser Abdel Latif -- Alaa Al Aswany -- Hamdi Abu Golayyel -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Hassan Hassan -- Taha Hussein -- Ihab Hassan -- Leila Ahmed -- Midhat Gazalé -- Laila Osayran -- Edward Said -- Ihsan Abdel Quddus -- Mohamed Berrada -- Miral al-Tahawy -- Khaled Al Khamissi -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Huda Shaarawi -- Latifa al-Zayyat -- Ahmad Hussein -- Idris Ali -- Robert Solé -- Ghaleb Halasa -- Latifa al-Zayyat -- Hala El Badry -- Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- Radwa Ashour -- Ibrahim Aslan -- Salwa Bakr -- Mona Prince -- Alaa Al Aswany -- Alaa Al Aswany -- Mourid Barghouti -- Khaled Al Khamissi -- Sharif Hatatah -- Raouf Musad -- Sonallah Ibrahim -- Nawal El Saadawi -- Hamdi el-Gazzar -- Tawfiq al-Hakim -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Fathy Ghanem -- Yusuf Idris -- Mohamed Berrada -- Sonallah Ibrahim -- Mohamed Salah al-Azab -- Ahdaf Soueif -- Salwa Bakr -- Khaled Al Khamissi -- Amira Abou-Taleb -- Ghada Abdel Al -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Maguid Tobia -- Yahya Taher Abdullah -- Hamdi Abu Golayyel -- Salwa Bakr -- Mekkawi Said -- Hamid Abdel Samad -- Idris Ali -- Mohamed al-Fakharani -- Hani Abdel Mourid -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Yusuf Idris -- Ismail Wali al-Din -- Albert Cossery -- Gamil Atia Ibrahim -- Khairy Shalaby -- Yasser Abdel Hafez -- Hamdi Abu Golayyel -- Raouf Musad -- Yahya Taher Abdullah -- Bahaa Abdelmegid -- Mohamed al-Fakharani -- Essam Youssef -- Sherine Aboul Naga -- Sonallah Ibrahim.
Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion volume immerses the reader in the complex network of socioeconomic and cultural lives in the city. The seven chapters first introduce the reader to representations of some of Cairo's prominent profiles, both political and cultural, and their impact on the city's literary geography, before presenting a spectrum of readings of the city by its multiethnic, multinational, and multilingual writers across class, gender, and generation. Daunting images of colonial school experiences and star.
9781617974519 9781306492461 9781617971709
Electronic Books.
DT144 / .L584 2011