An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing through the Centuries Islamic saints and ordinary people on whom

and ordinary people on whom the crisis exacted a personal toll

accompanying them with notes on vocabulary

religious practices

where they will forge new families

An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing through the Centuries Islamic saints and ordinary people on whomEdited by Michael Haag Founded by Alexander the Great over 2,300 years ago, Alexandria has belonged both to the Mediterranean and to Egypt, a luxuriant out planting of Europe on the coast of Africa, but also a city of the Eastthe fabled cosmopolitan town that fascinated travelers, writers, and poets in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, where French and Arabic, Italian and Greek were spoken in the cafs and on the streets. In the pages of An