A writer who has spent much of his life in this fabled city explores its past as the seat of both pharaohs and sultans, its medieval splendor, and the contemporary Cairo that exists side-by-side with ancient tombs. 15,000 first printing.
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Max Rodenbeck is a correspondent for The Economist. He lives in Cairo.
ultural excavation of one of the world's greatest cities--from its
ancient beginnings, through the heights of medieval splendor, to the present
day--by a gifted writer who has spent much of his life in Cairo.
The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to
Napoleon, Cairo has never stopped reinventing itself. Even in this century,
as Max Rodenbeck shows us, the city has transformed itself yet again--from
a glamorous European outpost into the nationalistic capital of the Arab world.
And, most recently, we have been witness to contemporary Cairo grappling
with a population explosion that strains every aspect of city life beyond capacity.
From its vantage atop the plateau of Giza, the Sphinx has witnessed it all: forty-
five centuries of a city evolving on the river plain below it. "The Victorious" is
what Arabs call Cairo, and its indomitable spirit still merits the name.
To this richly
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