Egypt's belle époque was a period of incredible extravagance during which the Khedive Ismail's Cairo became the mirror image, both architecturally and socially, of decadent Paris. The glamour and hedonism of the era reached its peak during the magnificent celebrations for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Kings and emperors, artists, writers and Europe's most sophisticated flocked to the dazzling new Cairo of sumptuous palaces and Parisian gardens, where Verdi's Aida premiered at the new opera house and glittering parties were held on the banks of the Nile. But the splendour was…mehr
Egypt's belle époque was a period of incredible extravagance during which the Khedive Ismail's Cairo became the mirror image, both architecturally and socially, of decadent Paris. The glamour and hedonism of the era reached its peak during the magnificent celebrations for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Kings and emperors, artists, writers and Europe's most sophisticated flocked to the dazzling new Cairo of sumptuous palaces and Parisian gardens, where Verdi's Aida premiered at the new opera house and glittering parties were held on the banks of the Nile. But the splendour was short-lived. Only a year after the Suez Canal opened, the Second Empire in France collapsed and the Khedive's excesses plunged Egypt into crippling debt. Ismail was eventually forced to abdicate, leaving Cairo to the British who occupied Egypt in all but name. This is a riveting account of an extraordinary moment in the history of both France and Egypt.
Trevor Mostyn has been a journalist, publisher and consultant in the Arab world, Iran and India. He visited Sarajevo as a war correspondent with Reporters sans Frontieres in 1993, and wrote for the New Statesman on the revolution in Iran and the civil war in Lebanon. He was a Financial Times correspondent in Cairo and is Middle East correspondent for The Tablet. His book Censorship in Islamic Society was published in 2002. He is also deputy chair of English PEN's Writers in Prison Committee.
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Introduction 1 Chibuks and Lice in Ismail's Harem 2 Obsession for an Empress 3 Napoleon's Hated 'Mission Civilizatrice' 4 Muhammad Ali - a Brutal Age of Development 5 A Cruel Princess 6 Rulers of the New Renaissance 7 Ismail - a Ruler Obsessed 8 Paris's Belle Epoque and the Great Exhibition 9 Ismail's Cairo - a Glitzy Age 10 The Finest Opera House in the World 11 The Palace of the Empress 12 The Cousin of the Empress 13 La Belle Eugenie 14 The Opening of the Accursed Canal 15 A Week of Hedonism 16 The Fall of Eugenie 17 The Fall of Ismail 18 Mr Cook and the Hotel Age 19 Cairo: the Englishman's Playground 20 Cairo's Sweet-scented Odalisques 21 The Age of the Great Hotels 22 Cairo's Last Flame 23 Setting Fire to Ismail's City Epilogue: Ismail's Cairo Today Notes Bibliography Index
Introduction 1 Chibuks and Lice in Ismail's Harem 2 Obsession for an Empress 3 Napoleon's Hated 'Mission Civilizatrice' 4 Muhammad Ali - a Brutal Age of Development 5 A Cruel Princess 6 Rulers of the New Renaissance 7 Ismail - a Ruler Obsessed 8 Paris's Belle Epoque and the Great Exhibition 9 Ismail's Cairo - a Glitzy Age 10 The Finest Opera House in the World 11 The Palace of the Empress 12 The Cousin of the Empress 13 La Belle Eugenie 14 The Opening of the Accursed Canal 15 A Week of Hedonism 16 The Fall of Eugenie 17 The Fall of Ismail 18 Mr Cook and the Hotel Age 19 Cairo: the Englishman's Playground 20 Cairo's Sweet-scented Odalisques 21 The Age of the Great Hotels 22 Cairo's Last Flame 23 Setting Fire to Ismail's City Epilogue: Ismail's Cairo Today Notes Bibliography Index
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