Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s

One of the world's most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented....
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Author: Raphael Cormack
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Language: English
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Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Cormack, Raphael

Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s

€25,81

Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s

€25,81
Author: Raphael Cormack
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 also as impresarias, entrepreneurs, owners, and promoters of a new and strikingly modern entertainment industry.

Raphael Cormack unveils the rich histories of independent, enterprising women like vaudeville star Rose al-Youssef (who launched one of Cairo's most important newspapers); nightclub singer Mounira al-Mahdiyya (the first woman to lead an Egyptian theater company) and her great rival, Oum Kalthoum (still venerated for her soulful lyrics); and other fabulous female stars of the interwar period, a time marked by excess and unheard-of freedom of expression. Buffeted by crosswinds of colonialism and nationalism, conservatism and liberalism, "religious" and "secular" values, patriarchy and feminism, this new generation of celebrities offered a new vision for women in Egypt and throughout the Middle East.



Author: Raphael Cormack
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/26/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.54w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9781324021933

About the Author
Cormack, Raphael: - Raphael Cormack is an award-winning editor and translator and has written on Arabic culture for the London Review of Books and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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