Acting Egyptian by Carmen M. K. Gitre HARDBACK 9781477319185

Acting Egyptian\nby Carmen M. K. Gitre\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Carmen M. K. Gitre\nTitle: Acting Egyptian\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Middle Eastern history\nPublisher: University of Texas Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781477319185\nISBN-10: 1477319182\nRRP: \u00A339.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the protectorate period of British occupation in Egypt-theaters and other performance sites were vital for imagining, mirroring, debating, and shaping competing conceptions of modern Egyptian identity. Central figures in this diverse spectrum were the effendis, an emerging class of urban, male, anticolonial professionals whose role would ultimately become dominant. Acting Egyptian argues that p.