Egypt's Belle Epoque

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Egypt's Belle Epoque was a period of incredible extravagance during which the Khedive Ismail's Cairo became the mirror image, both architecturally and socially, of decadent Paris. The glamour and hedonism of the era reached its peak during the magnificent celebrations for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Kings and emperors, artists, writers and Europe's most sophisticated flocked to the dazzling new Cairo of sumptuous palaces and Parisian gardens, where glittering parties were held on the banks of the Nile and where Verdi's Aida would later premiere at the new opera house. But the splendour was short-lived. Only a year after the Suez Canal opened, the Second Empire in France collapsed and the Khedive's excesses plunged Egypt into crippling debt. Ismail was eventually forced to abdicate, leaving Cairo to the British who occupied Egypt in all but name.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-07-26
Mått:126 x 198 x 18 mm
Vikt:270 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Continnuum-3PL
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781845112400

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Mer om författaren

Trevor Mostyn has been a journalist, publisher and consultant in the Arab world, Iran and India. He visited Sarajevo as a war correspondent with Reporters sans Frontieres in 1993, and wrote for the New Statesman on the revolution in Iran and the civil war in Lebanon. He was a Financial Times correspondent in Cairo and is Middle East correspondent for The Tablet. His book Censorship in Islamic Society was published in 2002 and he has just finished a romantic novel set in the Middle East. He is also deputy chair of English PEN's Writers in Prison Committee.

Recensioner i media

'This is an enthralling account of a period in Egypt's history now too often forgotten. Trevor Mostyn brings to life a glittering near century which launched Cairo as one of the world's great cities.' - Lisa Appignanesi ' Egypt's Belle Epoquehas the immediacy of oral history. This narrative depicts with wit and elegance the grandeur and decadence of a not so distant past. Trevor Mostyn writes as if he was himself a witness to the extraordinary events.' - Moris Farhi "A teeming, vivid portrait of the pomp, lasciviousness and blood-soaked cruelty of a great culture at the crossroads of history. It cries out to be made into a film." Terence Blacker GUARDIAN, 'This riveting account of a now-vanished world brings to life the splendour and the decadence of a period in Egypt's history, which is too often forgotten. Written with wit and remarkable immediacy, it tells the tale of Cairo's transformation into the Paris of Africa under the auspices of the founder of modern Egypt. -Khedive Ismail.' GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Mostyn brings to life a city of near overwhelming opulence, a Middle Eastern mirror image of its Western 'twin-city' Paris.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT "Trevor Mostyn presents an enticing glimpse of a fascinating but often overlooked era of Egypt's recent history"