A Field Guide To The Street Names Of Central Cairo
DOWNLOAD
Download A Field Guide To The Street Names Of Central Cairo PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get A Field Guide To The Street Names Of Central Cairo book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
A Field Guide To The Street Names Of Central Cairo
DOWNLOAD
Author : Humphrey Davies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11
A Field Guide To The Street Names Of Central Cairo written by Humphrey Davies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11 with History categories.
Who were ʿAbd el-Khaleq Sarwat Basha or Yusef el-Gindi that they should have streets named after them? Who was Nubar Basha and why did his street move from the north of the city to its center in 1933? Why do older maps show two squares called Bab el-Luq, while modern maps show none? A Field Guide to the Street Names of Cairo lists more than 450 current and three hundred former appellations. Current street names are listed in alphabetical order, with an explanation of what each commemorates and when it was first recorded, followed by the same for its predecessors.
A Field Guide To The Street Names Of Central Cairo
DOWNLOAD
Author : Humphrey Taman Davies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
A Field Guide To The Street Names Of Central Cairo written by Humphrey Taman Davies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Electronic books categories.
Dust
DOWNLOAD
Author : Xenia Nikolskaya
language : en
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2022-08-02
Dust written by Xenia Nikolskaya and has been published by American University in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with Photography categories.
A stunning photographic compilation of Egypt’s abandoned palaces and grand buildings Between 1860 and 1940, Cairo and other large cities in Egypt witnessed a major construction boom that gave birth to extraordinary palaces and lavish buildings. These incorporated a mix of architectural styles, such as Beaux-Arts and Art Deco, with local design influences and materials. Today, many lie empty and neglected, rapidly succumbing to time, a real-estate frenzy, and an ongoing population crisis. In 2006 Russian-born photographer Xenia Nikolskaya began the process of documenting these structures. She gained exceptional access to them, taking photographs at some thirty locations, including Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Minya, Esna, and Port Said. These photographs were documented in the first edition of Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture, which soon after its release in 2012 became a rare collector’s item. This revised and expanded edition includes photographs from the first edition together with extra unseen images and new photographs taken by Nikolskaya between 2013 and 2021. It also includes previously unpublished essays by Heba Farid, co-owner of the Cairo-based photo gallery Tintera, and architect and urban planner Omar Nagati, co-founder of CLUSTER, an urban design and research platform also in Cairo. Dust: Egypt's Forgotten Architecture leads us seductively into some of the most breathtaking architectural spaces of Egypt's recent past, filled with a sense of both the immense weight and the impermanence of history.
Architecture And Urban Transformation Of Historical Markets Cases From The Middle East And North Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : Neveen Hamza
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-05
Architecture And Urban Transformation Of Historical Markets Cases From The Middle East And North Africa written by Neveen Hamza and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-05 with Architecture categories.
This book explores the complex relationship between societies, architecture, and urbanism of market halls, traditional souqs, bazaars, and speciality street markets in the Middle East and North Africa. It addresses how these trading environments influence perceptions of place and play an extended social, political, and religious role while adapting to their local climates. Through Archival research and social science methodologies, this book records and maps markets in urban fabrics, expanding on practices underlying the push towards historical listings and the development of markets as landmarks in the urban fabric. The role of markets in delivering sustainable place-making strategies and influencing the development of cities’ socio-economic and historical strength is addressed as key to their survival in the urban fabric and as place-making landmarks for preserving tangible and intangible heritage. Going beyond heritage and conservation studies, this book discusses how positioning and restoring markets challenges urban renewal policies, access to public space planning, environmental sustainability, security of food supply, cultural heritage, and tourism. This is an ideal read for those interested in the history of urban development, architecture and urban planning, and architectural heritage.
Islamic Knowledge And The Making Of Modern Egypt
DOWNLOAD
Author : Hilary Kalmbach
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-22
Islamic Knowledge And The Making Of Modern Egypt written by Hilary Kalmbach and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-22 with History categories.
A history of Egypt's first teacher-training school, exploring 130 years of tension over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres.
In Darfur
DOWNLOAD
Author : Muḥammad al-Tūnisī
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-09-01
In Darfur written by Muḥammad al-Tūnisī and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with Literary Collections categories.
A merchant’s remarkable travel account of an African kingdom Muḥammad al-Tūnisī (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tūnisī was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al-Tūnisī set off for the Sultanate of Darfur, where his father had decamped ten years earlier. He followed the Forty Days Road, was reunited with his father, and eventually took over the management of the considerable estates granted to his father by the sultan of Darfur. In Darfur is al-Tūnisī’s remarkable account of his ten-year sojourn in this independent state, featuring descriptions of the geography of the region, the customs of Darfur’s petty kings, court life and the clothing of its rulers, marriage customs, eunuchs, illnesses, food, hunting, animals, currencies, plants, magic, divination, and dances. In Darfur combines literature, history, ethnography, linguistics, and travel adventure, and most unusually for its time, includes fifty-two illustrations, all drawn by the author. In Darfur is a rare example of an Arab description of an African society on the eve of Western colonization and vividly evokes a world in which travel was untrammeled by bureaucracy, borders were fluid, and startling coincidences appear almost mundane. An English-only edition.
The Book Of Charlatans
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2022-05-03
The Book Of Charlatans written by Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-03 with History categories.
"The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt"--
DOWNLOAD
Author : Muḥammad al-Tūnisī
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2018-05-08
written by Muḥammad al-Tūnisī and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with History categories.
In Volume One, al-Tunisi relates the history of his much-traveled family, his journey from Egypt to Darfur, and the reign of the noted sultan 'Abd al-Rahman al-Rashid. In Volume Two al-Tunisi describes the geography of the region, the customs of Darfur’s petty kings, court life and the clothing of its rulers, marriage customs, eunuchs, illnesses, food, hunting, animals, currencies, plants, magic, divination, and dances. In Darfur combines literature, history, ethnography, linguistics, and travel adventure, and most unusually for its time, includes fifty-two illustrations, all drawn by the author.
The Book Of Charlatans
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-11-10
The Book Of Charlatans written by Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with Literary Collections categories.
Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. The author, al-Jawbarī, was well versed in the practices he describes and may well have been a reformed charlatan himself. Divided into thirty chapters, his book reveals the secrets of everyone from “Those Who Claim to be Prophets” to “Those Who Claim to Have Leprosy” and “Those Who Dye Horses.” The material is informed in part by the author’s own experience with alchemy, astrology, and geomancy, and in part by his extensive research. The work is unique in its systematic, detailed, and inclusive approach to a subject that is by nature arcane and that has relevance not only for social history but also for the history of science. Covering everything from invisible writing to doctoring gemstones and quack medicine, The Book of Charlatans opens a fascinating window into a subculture of beggars’ guilds and professional con artists in the medieval Arab world. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
Nebraska A Guide To The Cornhusker State
DOWNLOAD
Author : Federal Writers' Project
language : en
Publisher: US History Publishers
Release Date : 1939
Nebraska A Guide To The Cornhusker State written by Federal Writers' Project and has been published by US History Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Automobile travel categories.