[PDF] From Cairo To Baghdad eBook

Author : James Canton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0857735713

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Until the 1880s, British travellers to Arabia were for the most part wealthy dilettantes who could fund their travels from private means. With the advent of an Imperial presence in the region, as the British seized power in Egypt, the very nature of travel to the Middle East changed. Suddenly, ordinary men and women found themselves visiting the region as British influence increased. Missionaries, soldiers and spies as well as tourists and explorers started to visit the area, creating an ever bigger supply of writers, and market for their books. In a similar fashion, as the Empire receded in the wake of World War II, so did the whole tradition of Middle East travel writing. In this elegantly crafted book, James Canton examines over one hundred primary sources, from forgotten gems to the classics of T E Lawrence, Thesiger and Philby. He analyses the relationship between Empire and author, showing how the one influenced the other, leading to a vast array of texts that might never have been produced had it not been for the ambitions of Imperial Britain. This work makes for essential reading for all of those interested in the literature of Empire, travel writing and the Middle East.

Author : Hala El Badry
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1617975559

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What was it like to live in Iraq before the earth-shaking events of the end of the twentieth century? The mid seventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Hussein's rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the Iraq-Iran war. It also brought an influx of oil wealth, following the 1973 war and the spike in oil prices, and a parallel influx of Arab talent, including many Egyptians, as the Egyptian left became disenchanted with Sadat. The massive migration also extended to workers and peasants, some of whom created an entire Egyptian village just outside Baghdad. We witness all of this and more through the eyes of an Egyptian woman married to an engineer working in Iraq. The narrator, who works for an Egyptian magazine's bureau in the Iraqi capital, has a behind-the-scenes view of what was really happening at a critical juncture in the history of the region. Moreover, she has a mystery to solve: an Iraqi woman from the marshes in the south of Iraq, who is also a communist journalist, has disappeared, and as the mystery unfolds we learn of her love for an older Egyptian Marxist journalist. This is Iraq before and beyond Saddam, Iraq as the Arabs knew it, in the lives of interesting people living in a vibrant country before the attempted annexation of Kuwait and the American invasion. This is the Iraq that was

Author : Carl Reinhard Raswan
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9783487081588

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Between 1927 and 1936, Carl Raswan traveled over a dozen times to Arabia, returning with Arabian horses for breeding in Europe and America. This is a reproduction of one of his accounts of his work and travels.

Author : Richard Engel
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786265589

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Written from the Baghdad streets leading up to, during, and following the war, this book examines the impact of the recent war as well as critical assessments for the future of the Gulf region.

Author : Stefanie Wichhart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0755634535

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This book explores the tumultuous war years through the lens of the British Embassies in Cairo and Baghdad, demonstrating the role that the Second World War played in shaping the political and social map of the contemporary Middle East. The war served as a catalyst for seismic changes in Arab society and the emergence of new movements that provided powerful critiques of British intervention and of the governments that facilitated it, making the war a critical turning point in Britain's empire in the Middle East.