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Alexandria, real and imagined
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ISBN: 0754638901 Year: 2004 Volume: 5 Publisher: Aldershot : Ashgate,


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Durrell and the city
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ISBN: 1283362406 9786613362407 161147454X 9781611474541 9781611474534 9781283362405 6613362409 1611474531 Year: 2012 Publisher: Madison, N.J. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

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Durrell and the City commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical understanding of all Durrell's urban landscapes, but focuses on the place that made him famous-the city of Alexandria-in order to provide a reassessment of his career and achievement.

La vie quotidienne à Alexandrie, 331-30 av. J.-C.
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ISBN: 2012352499 9782012352490 Year: 1999 Publisher: Paris Hachette

Dichtung und höfische Gesellschaft : die Rezeption von Zeitgeschichte am Hof der ersten drei Ptolemäer
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ISBN: 3515062971 9783515062978 Year: 1993 Volume: 62 Publisher: Stuttgart : Steiner,


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Alexandrian and Alexandria-influenced mould-made lamps of the Hellenistic period
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ISBN: 086054866X Year: 1997 Publisher: Oxford Archaeopress


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Églises et chapelles d'Alexandrie byzantine : recherches de topographie cultuelle
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ISBN: 9782916716695 2916716696 Year: 2020 Volume: 1 Publisher: Paris Association des Amis du Centre d'histoire et de civilisation de Byzance

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Les recherches de topographie chrétienne alexandrine sont tributaires de sources littéraires grecques, latines et orientales. Souvent légendaires, contradictoires, tendancieuses encore que peu explicites sur leurs visées, elles ont parfois égaré l’érudition moderne. On peut cependant, au prix de comparaisons, d’analyses littéraires et de remarques textuelles, en tirer des données sérieuses. C’est du moins ce que tend à montrer le présent ouvrage, avec les nouvelles localisations qu’il propose. On y traite aussi de l’histoire des nombreux édifices chrétiens d’Alexandrie et de certains aspects de la vie chrétienne locale.


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Alexandrian cosmopolitanism : an archive
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ISBN: 0823251772 082325299X 0823252272 0823252280 0823251764 1299940684 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press,

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Interrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant account of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism elevates things European in the city’s culture and simultaneously places things Egyptian under the sign of decline. The book goes beyond this civilization/barbarism binary to trace other modes of intercultural solidarity.Halim presents a comparative study of literary representations, addressing poetry, fiction, guidebooks, and operettas, among other genres. She reappraises three writers—C. P. Cavafy, E. M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell—who she maintains have been cast as the canon of Alexandria. Attending to issues of genre, gender, ethnicity, and class, she refutes the view that these writers’ representations are largely congruent and uncovers a variety of positions ranging from Orientalist to anticolonial. The book then turns to Bernard de Zogheb, a virtually unpublished writer, and elicits his camp parodies of elite Levantine mores in operettas, one of which centers on Cavafy. Drawing on Arabic critical and historical texts, as well as contemporary writers’ and filmmakers’ engagement with the canonical triumvirate, Halim orchestrates an Egyptian dialogue with theEuropean representations.

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