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Alexandria: City of Memory
By Michael Haag
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By Michael Haag
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A luminous portrait of the nowvanished cosmopolitan city and those who inhabited it during the first half of the 20th century
This book is a literary, social, and political portrait of Alexandria at a high point of its history. Drawing on diaries, letters, and interviews, Michael Haag recovers the lost life of the city, its cosmopolitan inhabitants, and its literary characters.
Located on the coast of Africa yet rich in historical associations with Western civilization, Alexandria was home...