Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt

Introduction  Part 1: Colonial Anxieties and Cosmopolitan Desires  1. Literary Alexandria  2. Poetics of Memory: Edwar al-Kharrat  3. Polis and Cosmos: Ibrahim Abdel Meguid  Part 2: Counterpoint New York  4. Why New York?: Youssef Chahine  Part 3: A Mobile Levant  5. Gazing Across Sinai  6. A Mediterranean Vigor that Never Wanes: Yitzhaq Gormezano Goren  7. Unmasking Levantine Blindness: Ronit Matalon.  Conclusion