An Incurable Past : Nasser's Egypt Then and Now.
Material type: TextSeries: New World DiasporasPublisher: Florida : University Press of Florida, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813045047Subject(s): Mary - Apparitions and miracles - Egypt - CairoGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: An Incurable Past : Nasser's Egypt Then and NowDDC classification: 962.05/3 LOC classification: DT107.83.B46 2013ebOnline resources: Click to ViewCover -- An Incurable Past -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: This Incurable Otherness -- Part I. Retelling Salah al-Din: The Future Is Everything -- Chapter 1. Farouk Is Gone, Long Live the Revolution -- Chapter 2. The New Order -- Part II. Burn, Edmund, Burn: The Present Is Everything -- Chapter 3. When Edmund Allenby Became al-Limby -- Chapter 4. Port Said, Martyr City -- Chapter 5. The End of History -- Part III. St. Mary, Mother of Egypt: The Past Is Everything -- Chapter 6. The Science of Miracles -- Chapter 7. Globalizing the Virgin, Nationalizing Religion -- Conclusion: "What Revolution?!" -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Examines collective memory, oral histories, and everyday communications to reveal not just the history of mid-twentieth-century Egypt but also the ways in which ordinary people experience and remember the past.
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