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Free Download Samia Mehrez, "The Literary Life of Cairo: One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City"
English | ISBN: 9774163907 | 2011 | 400 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion volume immerses the reader in the complex network of socioeconomic and cultural lives in the city. The seven chapters first introduce the reader to representations of some of Cairo’s prominent profiles, both political and cultural, and their impact on the city’s literary geography, before presenting a spectrum of readings of the city by its multiethnic, multinational, and multilingual writers across class, gender, and generation. Daunting images of colonial school experiences and startling contrasts of postcolonial educational realities are revealed, while Cairo’s moments of political participation and oppression are illustrated, as well as the space accorded to women within the city across history and class.

Free Download Samia Mehrez, "The Literary Life of Cairo: One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City"
English | ISBN: 9774163907 | 2011 | 400 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion volume immerses the reader in the complex network of socioeconomic and cultural lives in the city. The seven chapters first introduce the reader to representations of some of Cairo’s prominent profiles, both political and cultural, and their impact on the city’s literary geography, before presenting a spectrum of readings of the city by its multiethnic, multinational, and multilingual writers across class, gender, and generation. Daunting images of colonial school experiences and startling contrasts of postcolonial educational realities are revealed, while Cairo’s moments of political participation and oppression are illustrated, as well as the space accorded to women within the city across history and class.

Free Download The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories: Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914 By John T. Chalcraft
2005 | 285 Pages | ISBN: 0791461440 | PDF | 4 MB
This book charts new directions in Egyptian social history, providing the first systematic account of adaptation and protest among crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a wealth of new sources, John T. Chalcraft challenges conventional notions of craft stagnation and decline by recovering the largely unknown histories of crafts workers’ restructuring in the face of world economic integration, and their petitions, demonstrations, and strikeaction at a time of statebuilding and colonial rule. Chalcraft demonstrates the economic importance of petty producers and service providers, and tells the story of widespread collective assertion couched in new discourses of citizenship and nationalism. He also gives a new interpretation of the end of the guilds in Egypt and addresses larger debates about unevenness under capitalism.

Free Download Dress and Dress Code in Medieval Cairo: A Mamluk Obsession
by Doris Behrens-Abouseif
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9004684972 | 258 Pages | True PDF | 16.7 MB

Free Download The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo by Jonathan Porter Berkey
English | 1992 | ISBN: 0691031916 | 262 Pages | PDF | 12.1 MB
In rich detail Jonathan Berkey interprets the social and cultural consequences of Islam’s regard for knowledge, showing how education in the Middle Ages played a central part in the religious experience of nearly all Muslims.

Free Download Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt, The: The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive by Rebecca J. W. Jefferson
English | February 24, 2022 | ISBN: 178831963X | 282 pages | MOBI | 3.00 Mb
The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world’s greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a quarter of a million fragments hidden in Egypt were discovered and distributed around the world, before becoming collectively known as "The Cairo Genizah," is far more convoluted and compelling than previously told. The full story involves an international cast of scholars, librarians, archaeologists, excavators, collectors, dealers and agents, operating from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and all acting with varying motivations and intentions in a race for the spoils. Basing her research on a wealth of archival materials, Jefferson reconstructs how these protagonists used their various networks to create key alliances, or to blaze lone trails, each one on a quest to recover ancient manuscripts. Following in their footsteps, she takes the reader on a journey down into ancient caves and tombs, under medieval rubbish mounds, into hidden attic rooms, vaults, basements and wells, along labyrinthine souks, and behind the doors of private clubs and cloistered colleges. Along the way, the reader will also learn about the importance of establishing manuscript provenance and authenticity, and the impact to our understanding of the past when either factor is in doubt.