Main entry:

Alsayyad, Nezar.

Title & Author:

Cairo : histories of a city / Nezar Alsayyad.

Publication:

London : Harvard University Press, 2011.

Description:

xix, 325 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preamble : reading and writing Cairo -- Memphis : the first Cairo -- From ancient Egypt to the Coptic enclave -- Fustat-Misr : the city of Arab Islam -- Al-Qahira : a Fatimid palatial town -- Fortress Cairo : from Salah Al-Din to the Pearl Tree -- The Bahri Mamluks : the city of the slave sultans -- Governing from the tower : the Burji Mamluks -- A provincial capital under Ottoman rule -- A changing city : from Napoleon to Muhammad Ali -- Modernizing the new, medievalizing the old : the city of the Khedive -- The Arab republic and the city of Nasser -- Escaping the present, consuming the past.

Summary:

"Details the shifts in Cairo's built environment through stories of important figures who marked the cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political ideologies"--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780674047860 (hardcover)
0674047869 (hardcover)

Subject:

al- Markaz al-ʿArabī li-d-Dirāsāt Kairo
Architecture Egypt Cairo History.
Architecture and society Egypt Cairo History.
City planning Egypt Cairo History.
Architecture Égypte Le Caire Histoire.
Architecture et société Égypte Le Caire Histoire.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
Buildings.
City planning.
Geschichte
Arkitektur historia Egypten Kairo.
Stadsplanering historia Egypten Kairo.
Cairo (Egypt) Buildings, structures, etc.
Egypt Cairo.
Kairo

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272161
Call No.: BIB 205392
Status: Available