Losing Alexandria

Author : Victoria Thompson
Publisher : Trafford on Demand Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781425175641
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losing Alexandria written by Victoria Thompson and published by Trafford on Demand Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Thompson fuses history, mythology and autobiography to create a portrait of an unforgettable city and one of its rebellious daughters. A world few of us know, and fewer still have lived.

Author : Yasser El-Sayed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781647132606
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alexandria You Are Losing written by Yasser El-Sayed and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alexandria You Are Losing and Other Stories explores universal themes of dislocation and uprooting; American and Arab characters yearning for a home they have forsaken, or for a more palpable sense of identity and belonging. The stories also illuminate the common threads that connect us as human beings, the bridges we form one to the other despite conflict and misperceptions. We see an American experience, whether one is a recent immigrant or not, infused with migration, transience and displacement. The stories in this collection capture in a genuinely universal manner that sense of not belonging, of being "un-housed" in some way, and searching for a place in the world.

Author : Bojana Mojsov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472540577
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexandria Lost written by Bojana Mojsov and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imperialism, nationalism, religion and race: this narrative charts the tensions that destroyed Alexandria's ancient walls, leading to the loss of an entire classical heritage, and beginning a thousand-year rift between Christian Europe and the Islamic Middle East. In the fourth century AD Christian zealots destroyed the Great Library of Alexandria and killed Hypatia, the last director of the Museum. Over the next two centuries they systematically erased the entire 'pagan' heritage of the city. The subsequent war between the Byzantine and Egyptian Churches added to Alexandria's decline, and the inquisition unleashed by the Byzantine Patriarch Cyrus against the Egyptian Copts drove them into the arms of the invading Arabs, whose tolerance ensured both the survival of the Coptic Church of Egypt and the ready conversion of many Egyptians to Islam. But when, after conquering Alexandria by force, the Arabs demolished the surrounding walls, an entire civilisation perished. This fascinating book tells the extraordinary story of the destruction of classical Alexandria, exposing disturbing facts long erased from our collective historical memory. In charting the origins of the thousand year loss of dialogue between Europe and the Middle East, Bojana Mojsov reflects on the power and danger of ignorance driven by faith."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Victoria Anna Thompson
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9780330360791
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losing Alexandria written by Victoria Anna Thompson and published by Picador. This book was released on 1998 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir interweaves fact, myth and memory and deals with the author's childhood in Alexandria after WW11 and her subsequent life in Australia. Describes her career as an actor and psychotherapist, and her relationship with friends, family, lovers and husband.

Author : Richard Holloway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786898913
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving Alexandria written by Richard Holloway and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Sunday Times bestseller is a memoir about faith and doubt, with a strong meditative and philosophical heart

Author : Maria Dzielska
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674437760
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hypatia of Alexandria written by Maria Dzielska and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypatia—brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty—was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's life and death, and new insight into her colorful world. Historians and poets, Victorian novelists and contemporary feminists have seen Hypatia as a symbol—of the waning of classical culture and freedom of inquiry, of the rise of fanatical Christianity, or of sexual freedom. Dzielska shows us why versions of Hypatia's legend have served her champions' purposes, and how they have distorted the true story. She takes us back to the Alexandria of Hypatia's day, with its Library and Museion, pagan cults and the pontificate of Saint Cyril, thriving Jewish community and vibrant Greek culture, and circles of philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers, and militant Christians. Drawing on the letters of Hypatia's most prominent pupil, Synesius of Cyrene, Dzielska constructs a compelling picture of the young philosopher's disciples and her teaching. Finally she plumbs her sources for the facts surrounding Hypatia's cruel death, clarifying what the murder tells us about the tensions of this tumultuous era.

Author : Edmund Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526603821
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexandria written by Edmund Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rahma Krambo
Publisher : Rahma Krambo
ISBN 13 : 9780983705413
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria written by Rahma Krambo and published by Rahma Krambo. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wrong hands, some books can be dangerous-and some libraries can be positively deadly. Marco, a young tabby, has been perfectly happy as a small town library cat and newly appointed Guardian of an ancient mystical book. However, when otherworldly creatures begin roaming the stacks after hours, and his mentor, the elder Guardian, is killed, Marco's innocent world is shattered. The young tabby cat is on his own, ill-prepared for the daunting task of safekeeping the magical book of power-and the very heart and soul of the library. Time and space are no barriers for Marco's shape shifting friends and enemies as he learns that the library is the most dangerous place worth saving. Guardian Cats is the classic hero's journey with cats as the guardians of an ancient mystical book of power.

Author : William Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976374749
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Alexandria written by William Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Illustrated History of Sixteen Destroyed Historic Homes in and around Alexandria, Virginia

Author : Michael Haag
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300104158
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexandria written by Michael Haag and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a literary, social, and political portrait of Alexandria at a high point of its history. Drawing on diaries, letters, and interviews, Michael Haag recovers the lost life of the city, its cosmopolitan inhabitants, and its literary characters. Located on the coast of Africa yet rich in historical associations with Western civilization, Alexandria was home to an exotic variety of people whose cosmopolitan families had long been rooted in the commerce and the culture of the entire Mediterranean world. Alexandria famously excited the imaginations of writers, and Haag folds intimate accounts of E. M. Forster, Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, and Lawrence Durrell into the story of its inhabitants. He recounts the city’s experience of the two world wars and explores the communities that gave Alexandria its unique flavor: the Greek, the Italian, and the Jewish. The book deftly harnesses the sexual and emotional charge of cosmopolitan life in this extraordinary city, and highlights the social and political changes over the decades that finally led to Nasser’s Egypt.