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WANDERLUST
TRAVEL LITERATURE OF EGYPT AND THE MIDDLE EAST |
| By: |
Ferial J. Ghazoul (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£75.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9774160118 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789774160110 |
| Publisher: |
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2006 |
| Pages: |
500 |
| Description: |
Devoted to travel and travel-writing in the broadest cross-cultural sense, this work focuses on what Mahmoud Manzalaoui has termed indigenes, visitants, sojourners, and habitants or metics, particularly in Egypt and the Middle East. It is a tribute to Middle East scholar and acclaimed travel writer, John Rodenbeck. |
| Synopsis: |
This issue of Alif is devoted to travel and travel-writing in the broadest cross-cultural sense and focuses on what Mahmoud Manzalaoui has termed indigenes, visitants, sojourners, and habitants or metics, particularly in Egypt and the Middle East. It is a tribute to Middle East scholar and acclaimed travel writer John Rodenbeck. Essays in this issue take a variety of approaches, ranging from the historical to the analytical and philosophical. Contributors include Sahar Sobhi Abdel-Hakim, Fadwa Adbel Rahman, Michael Haag, JDF Jones, Ceza Kassem, Nabil Matar, Malise Ruthven, Sarah Searight, and Terry Walz. |
| Publication: |
Egypt |
| Imprint: |
The American University in Cairo Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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