BUILDING MODERN EGYPT

Box set of 5 hardcover titles| 480 pages | 390 Illustrations | 17×24 cm
2019 | isbn 9781733552707

Boxed set of five books with archival images tell the untold history of the Suez Canal; the backstory of the companies that made the Egyptian Bourse; the building of Downtown Cairo; the world of Egyptian Postage; and the Dream Factory that was Cinema Cairo – the shaping a modern Egypt.

Downtown Cairo

Building 'modern' Cairo in the image of Hausmann Paris.

The Suez Canal – A History

Little-known, intriguing gems of a hidden history of the Suez Canal.

The Egyptian Bourse

The rise and fall of the Egyptian Bourse from the sale of Egypt's Suez Canal shares in 1875 to the Free Officers coup of 1952.

Egyptian Postage 1866-1967

A rich view of Egypt's storied philatelic history.

Cinema Cairo:

DREAM FACTORY ON THE NILE | When Cairo was the the Dream Factory on the Nile, Hollywood of the East, chanting a song of its own.