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Alexandria: City of Memory
Contemporary Review, Feb, 2005
Alexandria: City of Memory. Michael Haag. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xiv + 368 pages. ISBN 0-300-10415-4. In this history of Alexandria the author confines himself to the city after the end of the Second World War. He tells the story of the city's decline, enhanced by Nasser's Islamic nationalism, through the lives and writings of three of Alexandria's most famous Western visitors: E.M.
Forster, Constantine Cavafy and Lawrence Durrell. Through their writings and personal diaries and correspondence he recreates the cosmopolitan life that once marked this famous Mediterranean city. The massive increase in population (from 800,000 in 1945 to five million today) and the departure of so many of its foreign inhabitants have made Alexandria not just poorer but a city 'without memories'. The author's elegiac style adds to the book's melancholic tone but helps readers to imagine what cannot now be seen. (P.P.F.)
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