Cairo's Street Stories

2008 History

Author : Lesley Kitchen Lababidi
Release : 2008
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 537/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cairo's Street Stories written by Lesley Kitchen Lababidi. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Egypt from 1805 to 1970, and here Cairo-based author Lesley Lababidi provides a unique perspective on Egyptian history through looking at more than thirty statues and monumental sculptures and the stories behind them. Between statues, she explores Cairo's growth and its multidimensional identity, as manifested in the development and changing use of city space over the centuries, and examines the relationship of Cairo's modern denizens with the landscapes, districts, palaces, archaeological sites, cafés, bridges, and gardens of their great and maddening city, the Mother of the World. Illustrated throughout with color photographs and archival pictures, Cairo's Street Stories presents a unique and lively view of the history that fashioned the city's streets and open spaces, and of the many and often unexpected uses to which its inventive inhabitants put them.

Jewish Maxwell Street Stories

2004 History

Author :
Release : 2004
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 400/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Jewish Maxwell Street Stories written by . This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has seen Maxwell Street has a story about Maxwell Street. You didn't have to shop there, work there, or eat there. You didn't have to be Jewish. You just had to go there, or merely pass-by, in order to experience something that stuck in your mind forever. Only a few blocks south of Chicago's downtown, Maxwell Street was predominately a Jewish enclave, but you could also hear the Blues, bargain with Gypsies, and find bargain hunters from all walks of life. This book focuses on the stories of the last Jewish generations that lived and worked in the Maxwell Street market area. Beginning in the late 19th century, it was there that thousands of Jewish immigrants first grasped the American dream. The descendents of those first Jewish peddlers absorbed the legacies left them; some went on to be among the most notable and successful personalities of the 20th century. On Maxwell Street, the best merchandise was knowledge.

74th Street Stories

2005 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Gary Mielo
Release : 2005
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 93X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book 74th Street Stories written by Gary Mielo. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't ask author Gary Mielo what it was like to grow up in North Bergen, New Jersey. He's likely to relate personal essays and anecdotes that include "the most heinous experience, the one which can easily produce the deepest and most lasting of scars, is an affliction known as the senior prom". He'll evoke "a time when yellow air raid shelter signs, hanging on the walls of virtually all candy stores, ice cream parlors, and other public buildings, reported the way to alleged underground safety". And narrate the demise of his 1955 DeSoto "while traversing one of the world's most heavily trafficked truck routes, the infamous Tonnelle Avenue". Comprised of 44 personal essays, 74th Street Stories extols New Jersey's Hudson County as it and its North Bergen residents lived through two of the most bizarre decades in recent history, namely the Cold War 1950s and the Strung Out 1960s. Nevertheless, the moments of sudden awareness recounted in many of these essays go beyond the merely wistful or the distinctively reminiscent. The characters and incidents described in 74th Street Stories have their roots in a town and a county that nurtured an identity that was nothing less than wonderfully peculiar.

Street Stories God's Glory

2010-12-30 Self-Help

Author : Joseph T. Reese
Release : 2010-12-30
Genre : Self-Help
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Book Rating : 086/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Street Stories God's Glory written by Joseph T. Reese. This book was released on 2010-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What comes to your mind when a person knowingly or unknowingly walks up to you and says, I got something I want you to read. In simple language, do you take the time to envision their expression, or do you shun the idea that someone else is trying to stuff an idea, thought, or some way-out story into your mind? No matter what your answer may be, I took the chance and read the material handed to me through the person of Joseph T. Reese, and to my surprise, I was captivated by the passion and open-heartedness of this vibrant writer. To pen the words to paper will continue until the end of time, for the KJV Bible declares in Ecclesiastes 12:12, And further, by these, my son, be admonished of making many books there is no end and much study is a weariness of the flesh. This book that you are holding and contemplating on purchasing for self or some close friend should stimulate your drive and desire to see how the God of heaven can take an eager and inspiring young man from the atmosphere of Street Life as we call it, to a profound dreamer, visionary, poet, and author. I believe, like myself, youll see perhaps some images of yourself in these writings and in turn, will stop to give God glory for allowing Joseph T. Reese to tell the story from his view on life. Elder Joseph L. Reaves Jr. Pastor, Greater Faith House of Prayer

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