Alexandria
Subtitle: city of memory
By: Michael Haag
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Alexandria (Egypt) -- History -- 20th century; Alexandria (Egypt) -- Social life and customs; Alexandria (Egypt) -- Intellectual life
Description: "This is a literary, social and political portrait of Alexandria during the first half of the twentieth century, a high-point in its history. Drawing on diaries, letters and interviews, Michael Haag recovers the lost life of the city, its cosmopolitan inhabitants and its literary characters."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published: London: I.B. Tauris, 1998