TY - BOOK AU - Belli,Meriam N. ED - Project Muse. TI - An incurable past: Nasser's Egypt then and now SN - 9780813045047 AV - DT107.83 .B46 2013 U1 - 962.05/3 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - Mary, KW - Nasser, Gamal Abdel, KW - Port Said (Egypt) KW - History KW - Egypt KW - Social conditions KW - 1952-1970 KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: This incurable otherness -- Part I: Retelling Salah al-Din : the future is everything -- 1. Farouk is gone, long live the revolution -- 2. The new order -- Part II: Burn, Edmund, burn : the present is everything -- 3. When Edmund Allenby became al-Limby -- 4. Port Said, martyr city -- 5. The end of history -- Part III: St. Mary, mother of Egypt : the past is everything -- 6. The science of miracles -- 7. Globalizing the virgin, nationalizing religion -- Conclusion: "What revolution?" N2 - A look at the interplay between human experience and its cultural representations in mid-twentieth-century Egypt UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813045047/ ER -