MARC Record from Library of Congress

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100 1 $aBelli, Mériam N.
245 13 $aAn incurable past :$bNasser's Egypt then and now /$cMériam N. Belli.
260 $aGainesville :$bUniversity Press of Florida,$cc2013.
300 $axii, 295 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: This incurable otherness -- Part I: Retelling Salah al-Din : the future is everything -- 1. Farouk is gone, long live the revolution -- 2. The new order -- Part II: Burn, Edmund, burn : the present is everything -- 3. When Edmund Allenby became al-Limby -- 4. Port Said, martyr city -- 5. The end of history -- Part III: St. Mary, mother of Egypt : the past is everything -- 6. The science of miracles -- 7. Globalizing the virgin, nationalizing religion -- Conclusion: "What revolution?".
520 $aA look at the interplay between human experience and its cultural representations in mid-twentieth-century Egypt.
651 0 $aEgypt$xHistory$y1952-1970.
651 0 $aEgypt$xPolitics and government$y1952-1970.
651 0 $aEgypt$xSocial conditions$y1952-1970.
651 0 $aPort Said (Egypt)$xHistory.
600 10 $aNasser, Gamal Abdel,$d1918-1970.
600 00 $aMary,$cBlessed Virgin, Saint$xApparitions and miracles$zEgypt$zCairo.