Paris Along the Nile
Subtitle: Architecture in Cairo from the Belle Epoque
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: December 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9789774248122
Subjects: Architecture; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Modernist design & Bauhaus; Photographs: collections; Places & peoples: general interest; International Architecture - Middle Eastern; Clip Art; Art; Egypt; Pictorial; General; History - General; History / Egypt; African
First sentence: . . . the Khedive had built a handsome Opera House in Cairo, and had offered the composer Verdi a munificent sum for an opera which should represent the glories of old Egypt.