Midnight in Cairo
The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s
Raphael Cormack
Explore the vibrant entertainment industry of 1920s and '30s Cairo, where women dominated as stars, entrepreneurs, and impresarias. Raphael Cormack's Midnight in Cairo unravels the fascinating stories of independent and enterprising women who redefined modern Egyptian culture, including vaudeville star Rose al-Youssef and iconic singer Oum Kalthoum. Get swept away by an era of excess and unheard-of freedom of expression, shaped by competing values of colonialism and nationalism, conservatism and liberalism, and patriarchy and feminism.
Publish Date
2021-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
2021-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.96
ISBN
9780393541137
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Recommendations
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Recommendations
2021-03-19T11:33:44.000Z
A delightful book about an era long ago gone. The cosmopolitan culture of the Middle East because it was seen as associated with colonialism has unfortunately been extinguished over the last century – source