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~ Maria Golia (Author)
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'a lucid exploration of the city... Golia [offers] ... an intimate and serpentine tour' -- Fortean Times

'a magnificent, multidimensional, eloquent and, above all, intelligent portrait of one of the world's most enigmatic places.' -- Sunday Times, June 2004


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"Well-researched, reflective. . . Golia crams her book with anecdotes and personal experience, giving us an intimate picture of an inimitable, modern city."--The Good Book Guide (The Good Book Guide (London) )

Product Details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books; illustrated edition edition (March 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1861891873
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861891877
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #493,459 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good Introduction to the psyche of Cairenes, March 2, 2005
By Ahmed Moustafa (Cairo, Egypt) - See all my reviews
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I grow up in Cairo. I was suprised how the author learned all of that information that she put in the book. The book provides information that one cannot know unless he/she lives long enough with the Cairenes. The book is very interesting. It descibes many aspects of social life in Cairo. The book discusses details about events, such as marriage, Islam, dating, etc. An early, interesting chapter discusses a brief introduction to the history of Cairo.
I think that this book is for a reader who wanna know some information about the behavior and beliefs of Cairnes. The book is easy-to-read and non-academic.
This book may not be very informative for someone who just get information about traveling in Cairo.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Reflects Cairo's Magnificent Complexity, March 7, 2005
If you know Cairo at all, whether glancingly or in depth, you will be grateful for the richness and detail of Maria Golia's book. No other work on the city captures so much of its unimaginably crowded present. Its past is skillfully woven in, but as Golia notes in her introduction, others have written about Cairo's past. Few outsiders can report so well on the day to day life of this incomprehensibly vast city. True, it's not a tourist's guide, but anyone who loves cities and their history will find this a rewarding text.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, informative overview of Cairo, June 17, 2008
This is a lovely and highly informative book. Maria Golia's prose is very readable and equally delightful, her knowledge of Cairo, its people and its history is comprehensive. She loves the city. She doesn't patronize it.

Minor corrections, to an otherwise very accurate book, are on

Page 35, the name of the Egyptian actor Adel IMAM is given as Adel IMAN, twice.

Page 85, the words for 'cemeteries' (plural) and 'dust' (single) in colloquial Egyptian dialect are 'TOE-rub' (the stress on the first syllable) and 'tor-AAb' (the stress is on the second), respectively. It's tempting to argue that they derive from the same three-letter semetic root, but as they stand, they are pronounced differently.

Finally, I want to point out that there is a number of short "Letters from Cairo" (published in 'The New Internationalist') by, and an NPR interview (from early 2003) with M Golia available on the web. All highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book
I learned more from reading this book, over a recent visit, than from living in Cairo for five years and then visiting over a period of twenty. Read more
Published on October 15, 2007 by J. F. Ogara

5.0 out of 5 stars Insight and interest
You don't have to love Cairo like I do to love Maria Golia's writing. She writes with engaging warmth, humor, and irony about the city and its remarkable, warm, funny, and ironic... Read more
Published on November 23, 2006 by Brian Hunt

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