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Author : Sophia Lane Poole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo written by Sophia Lane Poole and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sophia Lane Poole
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)
Download or read book “The” Englishwoman in Egypt written by Sophia Lane Poole and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sophia Poole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo, Written During a Residence There in 1842, 3 Et 4 written by Sophia Poole and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sophia Lane Poole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo written by Sophia Lane Poole and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sophia Lane Poole
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774247996
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (479 download)
Download or read book The English Woman in Egypt : Letters from Cairo written during a residence there in 1842 - 46 written by Sophia Lane Poole and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1844, The Englishwoman in Egypt is the collected observations of Sophia Poole, who lived in Cairo from 1842 until 1849 with her brother, the well known Orientalist Edward Lane, and her two children. During her residence, Poole learned Arabic and adopted Egyptian clothing that enabled her not only to observe day-to-day life in the streets and markets but also to enter hammams and harems and interact on an intimate level with Egyptian women of different classes. Poole ultimately had access, in fact, to the highest levels of society, including the family of the viceroy Mohamed Ali Pasha, and recorded her experiences there with the same eye for detail and understanding of underlying customs as she brought to bear in the marketplace. She moves effortlessly from situation to situation--the pasha's daughter smoking her jewel-encrusted pipe, the homesick slave-girl, the occupation of ladies of leisure--one scene after another is unfolded in her writing that reveals not only a mind that observes and records but a human being who attempts to feel and understand a different culture. In contrast to her brother's dense works of research, Sophia Poole's was cast in the form of letters to a friend. These letters cover her arrival in Alexandria and trip up the Nile to Cairo, as well as her life in Cairo, with its visits to surrounding villages. The Englishwoman in Egypt is at once entertaining and informative. If Edward Lane kept alive for posterity a post-medieval Cairo that has since disappeared, then his sister in her work no doubt complemented that great achievement by presenting the same world from a feminine perspective that he as a man could not have access to.
Author : Sophie Poole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo written by Sophie Poole and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucy Duff Gordon
Publisher : Eland Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781780600383
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Letters from Egypt written by Lucy Duff Gordon and published by Eland Classics. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, Lucie Duff Gordon left her husband and three children in England and settled in Egypt, where she remained for the rest of her short life. Seeking respite from her tuberculosis in the dry air, she moved into a ramshackle house above a temple in Luxor, and soon became an indispensable member of the community. Setting up a hospital in her home, she welcomed all - from slaves to local leaders.
Author : Kate Pullinger
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652425
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book The Mistress Of Nothing written by Kate Pullinger and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London. But when her debilitating tuberculosis means exile, she and her devoted lady's maid, Sally, set sail for Egypt. It is Sally who describes, with a mixture of wonder and trepidation, the odd ménage marshalled by the resourceful Omar, which travels down the Nile to a new life in Luxor. As Lady Duff Gordon undoes her stays and takes to native dress, throwing herself into weekly salons; language lessons; excursions to the tombs; Sally too adapts to a new world, affording her heady and heartfelt freedoms never known before. But freedom is a luxury that a maid can ill-afford, and when Sally grasps more than her status entitles her to, she is brutally reminded that she is mistress of nothing.
Author : Jonathan Cott
Publisher : Aspect
ISBN 13 : 9780446390408
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Search for Omm Sety written by Jonathan Cott and published by Aspect. This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one woman's search for the previous life she led in ancient Egypt, written by a Rolling Stone and New Yorker journalist.
Author : Florence Nightingale
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802115324
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Letters from Egypt written by Florence Nightingale and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of letters written during a journey to Egypt describing the author's views on the country and its history and people
Author : Lucie Duff Gordon
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849678598
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Letters From Egypt, 1863 - 1865 written by Lucie Duff Gordon and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1986 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From travellers whose course of wild adventure and whose manifold and uncommon gifts put a pressure upon the reader in following them, similar to that felt by them in exploring, it is very delightful to turn to so small and readable, but fresh and pleasant a volume, as Lady Duff Gordon's. The scenes she visits and describes are supposed to be well known, but assuredly she has the merit of investing them with all interest very new, arising, principally, from her watchfulness over all human ways, and her own interest in every aspect of human life. The letters are written in a singularly captivating and vigorous English style. They possess the rare virtue of enabling the reader to realize tbe position of the writer and the true aspect of the people.
Author : Elizabeth Peters
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 178033446X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Crocodile on the Sandbank written by Elizabeth Peters and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!
Author : Cheri Berens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692121498
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (214 download)
Download or read book An American Woman Living in Egypt written by Cheri Berens and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheri Berens had been conducting field research throughout Egypt and had settled into married life with her Egyptian husband when the Arab Spring began. Quickly recognizing that western media was concealing the truth, Cheri began documenting the events that were taking place. Never-ending violent protests caused chaos to distract the public while the Muslim Brotherhood censored and arrested members of the media, disabled the Supreme Court, removed judges, and began changing the constitution. Police were demonized in order to remove them, and once removed, police were replaced with members of Islamist militias. The national anthem and saluting the flag were banned. Egyptian history was removed from textbooks and replaced with Islamic History. Only an Islamic identity was acceptable to the Muslim Brotherhood. Through personal experiences, Cheri unfolds a fascinating story of a foreign culture and illustrates how Egypt's culture was being systematically removed and replaced with Islam. Though the final process was implemented in a matter of months, the foundation of takeover had been long laid. The Muslim Brotherhood had placed activists inside universities and the Islamification began by altering the minds of Egypt's youth. Giving historical insights to better understand what took place, Cheri exposes the Arab Spring for what it was--including U.S. involvement. Within weeks after Barack Obama was elected president, the State Department held an Alliance of Youth Movements Summit. Muslim Brotherhood Youth attended this Summit and were trained to implement a false flag event to be used as a pretense for removing the government. Also at this Summit were representatives from CNN, MSNBC and other mainstream media, as well as Facebook and Google. Fake news and social media propaganda assisted the implementation of the Islamic takeover. Jam-packed with explosive information about U.S. involvement, Cheri fully demonstrates why there is a similar crisis lurking subversively inside America and exposes Islam for the devious system of takeover that it is.
Author : Omm Sety
Publisher : Glyphdoctors
ISBN 13 : 0979202302
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (792 download)
Download or read book Omm Sety's Living Egypt written by Omm Sety and published by Glyphdoctors. This book was released on 2008 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special connection with ancient Egypt drew Omm Sety to Egypt, where she studied with the great Egyptologists Selim Hassan and Ahmed Fakhry. For more than four decades she made her home in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza and in the mudbrick village surrounding the Temple of Sety I at Abydos. For her, there was no separation between ancient and modern Egypt. Pictures on tomb walls illustrated the games children played in the streets in front of her house. The texts she translated from the temple walls shed light on the origins of the social customs of her Egyptian neighbors. For another four decades this book, which deserves to be called Omm Sety's life work, remained hidden away. Now Nicole B. Hansen, an Egyptologist who specializes in connections between ancient and modern Egypt, brings this work to light in an annotated edition with extensive notes and bibliography, illustrated with Omm Sety's own drawings. It features a foreword by Kent R. Weeks, who rediscovered KV5 in the Valley of the Kings, and an introduction by Walter A. Fairservis, the late director of the Hierakonpolis Project. For Egyptologists, this book includes explanations of texts from the Pyramid Texts to Herodotus as well as ancient Egyptian art. For anthropologists, it represents the results of a lifetime of unbridled participant-observation, during which Omm Sety used folk treatments to cure her ills and agreed to serve as a medium for a spirit during a magic ritual. For those interested in Omm Sety herself, this book provides new insights into her life, the people she knew and the places she lived.
Author : Deborah Manley
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617973602
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Women Travelers in Egypt written by Deborah Manley and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until late in the nineteenth century, few guide books acknowledged the presence of women as travelers - although women had been traveling around the world for centuries. Women's accounts of their journeys, distinct from those of male travelers, began to appear more frequently in the early nineteenth century, and Egypt was a popular destination. Women had more time to watch and describe and they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni, Sophia Poole, and Ellen Chennells, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go. From Eliza Fay's description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney's daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in 2006, this lively collection of writing by over forty women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Isabella Bird, Winifred Blackman, Norma Lorimer, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon.
Author : Lanver Mak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085772116X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The British in Egypt written by Lanver Mak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt during the British occupation (1882-1922) was a strategically important site for securing British interests in the region. Most studies of Britons in Egypt during the occupation focus on the lives and activities of law-abiding British military and political elites. Using a variety of primary sources, this book deepens our understanding of the hidden British community beyond these elites - the lower and working classes, and those engaged in crime and misconduct - by bringing to light their demographic profile, socio-occupational diversity, criminal activities and varying responses to the crises represented by World War I and the revolutionary period of 1919-1922. It will be essential reading for historians of British imperialism, Egypt and the Middle East.
Author : Ahdaf Soueif
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307783553
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Map of Love written by Ahdaf Soueif and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booker Prize Finalist Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fallen in love with a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor. Shadowing her romance is the courtship of her great-grandparents Anna and Sharif nearly one hundred years before. In 1900 the recently widows Anna Winterbourne left England for Egypt, an outpost of the Empire roiling with political sentiment. She soon found herself enraptured by the real Egypt and in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi, an Egyptian nationalist. When Isabel, in an attempt to discover the truth behind her heritage, reenacts Anna’s excursion to Egypt, the story of her great-grandparents unravels before her, revealing startling parallels for her own life. Combining the romance and intricate narrative of a nineteenth-century novel with a very modern sense of culture and politics—both sexual and international—Ahdaf Soueif has created a thoroughly seductive and mesmerizing tale.
