Cairo: A Cultural History

by Andrew Beattie

Book Overview

Cairo is a city of extremes. On its chaotic streets BMWs driven by businessmen in suits compete for space with donkey carts laden with farm produce. In its mosques the wealthy and destitute pray side by side. The largest metropolis in Africa since the Middle Ages, it was in Arab traveller Isn Battutah's words "the mother of cities." With a present-day population of around eighteen million, this sprawling urban center is home to one thousand new migrants...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195178939
• ISBN13: 9780195178937
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 5.7"