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Alexandria: City of Memory.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Contemporary Review  |  Date: 2/1/2005

Alexandria: City of Memory. Michael Haag. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xiv + 368 pages. ISBN 0-300-10415-4. In this history of Alexandria the author confines himself to the city after the end of the Second World War. He tells the story of the city's decline, enhanced by Nasser's Islamic nationalism, through the lives and writings of three of Alexandria's most famous Western visitors: E.M. Forster, Constantine Cavafy and Lawrence Durrell. Through ...

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