Cairo's Street Stories - Lesley Lababidi

Cairo's Street Stories

Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, Garden, and Sidewalk Cafes

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Buch | Softcover
152 Seiten
2008
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
978-977-416-153-7 (ISBN)
23,65 inkl. MwSt
Provides a perspective on Egyptian history by looking at more than fifty statues and monumental sculptures and the stories behind them. Illustrated with photographs by the author, this work presents a view of the history that fashioned the city's streets and open spaces, and of the many unexpected uses to which its inventive inhabitants put them.
In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic message of the continuing authority of the ruling Muhammad Ali dynasty to which he belonged, but it was not until the early twentieth century and the determination of sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar that such public art gained general acceptance, and today statues stand, ride, or sit in the streets, squares, and gardens of Cairo. Each sculpture adds a piece to the jigsaw of history spanning personalities and events that shaped the city and wider Egypt from 1805 to 1970, and here Cairo-based author Lesley Lababidi provides a unique perspective on Egyptian history through looking at more than thirty statues and monumental sculptures and the stories behind them.
Between statues, she explores Cairo’s growth and its multidimensional identity, as manifested in the development and changing use of city space over the centuries, and examines the relationship of Cairo’s modern denizens with the landscapes, districts, palaces, archaeological sites, cafés, bridges, and gardens of their great and maddening city, the Mother of the World.
Illustrated throughout with color photographs and archival pictures, Cairo’s Street Stories presents a unique and lively view of the history that fashioned the city’s streets and open spaces, and of the many and often unexpected uses to which its inventive inhabitants put them.

LESLEY LABABIDI, who raised three children in Cairo, is the author of Cairo: The Family Guide (AUC Press, new revised edition 2006) and Silent No More: Special Needs People in Egypt (AUC Press, 2002). She also updated and edited the latest edition of Cairo: The Practical Guide (AUC Press, 2006).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.4.2015
Zusatzinfo Over 100 color illustrations
Verlagsort Cairo
Sprache englisch
Maße 165 x 229 mm
Gewicht 505 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Malerei / Plastik
Reisen Bildbände Afrika
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 977-416-153-X / 977416153X
ISBN-13 978-977-416-153-7 / 9789774161537
Zustand Neuware
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