Preamble : reading and writing Cairo
Memphis : the first Cairo
From ancient Egypt to the Coptic enclave
Fustat-Misr : the city of Arab Islam
Al-Qahira : a Fatimid palatial town
Fortress Cairo : from Salah Al-Din to the Pearl Tree
The Bahri Mamluks : the city of the slave sultans
Governing from the tower : the Burji Mamluks
A provincial capital under Ottoman rule
A changing city : from Napoleon to Muhammad Ali
Modernizing the new, medievalizing the old : the city of the Khedive
The Arab republic and the city of Nasser
Escaping the present, consuming the past.
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Cairo : histories of a city by Nezar AlSayyad. ISBN 9780674047860. Published by Belknap in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
