Cairo's Street Stories: Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, Gardens, and Sidewalk Cafes

by Lesley Kitchen Lababidi (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $20.89

  Provides a perspective on Egyptian history by looking at more than fifty statues and monumental sculptures and the stories behind them. Illustrated with photographs by the author, this work presents a view of the history that fashioned the city's streets and open spaces, and of the many unexpected uses to which its inventive inhabitants put them.