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The K · February 26, 2016

“Here there is only the pseudo-East—the pretentious, squalid, guttural Levant—and I shut my eyes to it on purpose, lest it spoil my pleasure in the true East.”
— E.M. Forster writing about Egypt, quoted in "Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism" by Hala Halim
Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive
By Hala Halim
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Alexandria: A History and Guide
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By E. M. Forster
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