Cairo: A Cultural History

by Andrew Beattie

Book Overview

Foreword by Penelope Lively Cairo is a city of extremes. On its chaotic streets BMWs driven by sharp-suited businessmen compete for space with donkey carts laden with farm produce. In its mosques the wealthy and the destitute pray side by side. The largest metropolis in Africa since the Middle Ages, it was in Ibn Battutah's words "the mother of cities." With a present-day population of around eighteen million, this sprawling metropolis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195178920
• ISBN13: 9780195178920
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.2"