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Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City, 1860-1960

Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City, 1860-1960

Michael Haag
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Using vintage photographs from the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth, many of them from private family albums, this book brings to life the world of that vanished Alexandria, a vibrant, stylish, and cosmopolitan city, the largest port in the Mediterranean, that was the prosperous gateway between Egypt and the world. Seen here in the setting of their homes and gardens, and on the city's streets and beaches, the faces of those forgotten Alexandrians come to life: the Greeks, Italians, Jews, and all those others from around the Mediterranean whose energy and expertise helped modernize and develop Egypt, and who planted their family roots in the city. This was the luxuriant and evocative city celebrated by Constantine Cavafy, E.M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell, and they too are included in these pages along with photographs of scenes and people that were familiar to them. Vintage Alexandria traces the development and growth of the city, follows its story through the dramatic events of two world wars, and above all provides a background to the city's place in twentieth-century cultural history, through the eyes of Alexandria's cosmopolitan citizens themselves. Those citizens and others who passed through the city and appear in these pages included Antony Benaki , Robert Koch , the Greek children's writer Penelope Delta, Claude Vincendon , King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, Eve Cohen , Safinaz Zulfikar , Rudolph Hess , Jean de Menasce , Manfred von Richthofen , the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said, the Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine, the Egyptian and international film star Omar Sharif, King Hussein of Jordan, Rhona Haszard , Ahmed Hassanein Pasha , and Noel Coward .
Language
English
Pages
139
Format
Hardcover
Release
November 06, 2008
ISBN 13
9789774161926

Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City, 1860-1960

Michael Haag
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Using vintage photographs from the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth, many of them from private family albums, this book brings to life the world of that vanished Alexandria, a vibrant, stylish, and cosmopolitan city, the largest port in the Mediterranean, that was the prosperous gateway between Egypt and the world. Seen here in the setting of their homes and gardens, and on the city's streets and beaches, the faces of those forgotten Alexandrians come to life: the Greeks, Italians, Jews, and all those others from around the Mediterranean whose energy and expertise helped modernize and develop Egypt, and who planted their family roots in the city. This was the luxuriant and evocative city celebrated by Constantine Cavafy, E.M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell, and they too are included in these pages along with photographs of scenes and people that were familiar to them. Vintage Alexandria traces the development and growth of the city, follows its story through the dramatic events of two world wars, and above all provides a background to the city's place in twentieth-century cultural history, through the eyes of Alexandria's cosmopolitan citizens themselves. Those citizens and others who passed through the city and appear in these pages included Antony Benaki , Robert Koch , the Greek children's writer Penelope Delta, Claude Vincendon , King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, Eve Cohen , Safinaz Zulfikar , Rudolph Hess , Jean de Menasce , Manfred von Richthofen , the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said, the Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine, the Egyptian and international film star Omar Sharif, King Hussein of Jordan, Rhona Haszard , Ahmed Hassanein Pasha , and Noel Coward .
Language
English
Pages
139
Format
Hardcover
Release
November 06, 2008
ISBN 13
9789774161926

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