Name: Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' – Daily Telegraph
SKU: 9781529377620
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Weight	0.36 kg
Dimensions	4.2 × 12.8 × 19.6 cm
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	1529377625
About The Author	Professor Islam Issa is an award-winning British-Egyptian author, broadcaster and curator, recently named by the BBC as 'one of the UK's most significant new thinkers'. He is Professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University, has written several academic books and curated internationally renowned exhibitions. As well as contributing to the Guardian, New Statesman and Times Literary Supplement, he has presented television and radio documentaries on the BBC and featured on such outlets as Netflix.
	'In Islam Issa's monumental and vividly imagined new tale of the city, Alexandria comes to life . . . Issa's Alexandria arrives at 2011's Arab Spring having covered more than two millennia in just over 400 pages – no mean feat. But his real success is the book's sense of personality. It ends with Issa walking through the modern city that now stands on the ancient site, passing its markets and Art Deco cinemas. He writes about the present as vividly as the storied past. This book is a fitting tribute to a city that has survived, changed and grown for so many centuries
Other text	An original, authoritative and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day