
Midnight in Cairo
The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s
Raphael Cormack
One of the world’s most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and ’30s, a vibrant music, theater, film, and cabaret scene flourished, defining what it meant to be a “modern” Egyptian. Women came to dominate the Egyptian entertainment industry—as stars of the stage and screen but ...
Publish Date
2021
March 9
Goodreads rating
4.08
ISBN
9780393541137
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Mar 19, 2021
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