Port Said Revisited - Softcover

Modelski, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967623006 ISBN 13: 9780967623009

Publisher: Faros Two Thousand, 2000

A panoramic view of Port Said emerges from the blending of a childhood memoir of the 1930s with an appreciation of this well-known but ill-understood global city at the north head of the Suez Canal. The author revisits her birthplace and reflects on the changes she observes, and on a rich past of which most people are unaware.

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From the Publisher:

Every year, thousands if not hundreds of thousand of people travel to Egypt and pass through Port Said. This is a book that would give them a better feel, and a finer background, for that interesting location.

From the Author:

The peoples of the world insist upon differentiating themselves from one another, be it by color, religion, race, nationality, region, language, class, costume etc. Yet they still all have one thing in common: the discovery years each child has to traverse before identifying with this or that group. It is this "generic" aspect of my early days which has interested me most and which I try to communicate in "Port Said Revisited". As for the background historical elements, they illustrate how a cumulative global learning experience is seen by those on the ground who live through it.

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