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Cairo's Street Stories: Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, Garden, and Sidewalk Cafes

Cairo's Street Stories: Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, Garden, and Sidewalk Cafes

Lababidi, Lesley

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African HistoryTravel WritingEgypt

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ISBN10: 977416153X
ISBN13: 9789774161537
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: Apr 15 2008
Pages: 152
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic message of the continuing authority of the ruling Muhammad Ali dynasty to which he belonged, but it was not until the early twentieth century
and the determination of sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar that such public art gained general acceptance, and today statues stand, ride, or sit in the streets, squares, and gardens of Cairo. Each sculpture adds a piece to the jigsaw of history spanning personalities and events that shaped the city and wider

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