Incurable Past Nasser's Egypt Then and Now.

Belli, Mériam N.

Incurable Past Nasser's Egypt Then and Now. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (309 pages)

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; An Incurable Past; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: This Incurable Otherness; Part I. Retelling Salah al-Din: The Future Is Everything; Chapter 1. Farouk Is Gone, Long Live the Revolution; Chapter 2. The New Order; Part II. Burn, Edmund, Burn: The Present Is Everything; Chapter 3. When Edmund Allenby Became al-Limby; Chapter 4. Port Said, Martyr City; Chapter 5. The End of History; Part III. St. Mary, Mother of Egypt: The Past Is Everything; Chapter 6. The Science of Miracles Chapter 7. Globalizing the Virgin, Nationalizing ReligionConclusion: "What Revolution?!"; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Examines collective memory, oral histories, and everyday communications to reveal not just the history of mid-twentieth-century Egypt but also the ways in which ordinary people experience and remember the past.



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Electronic Books.

DT107 / .I538 2013