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André Aciman (/ ˈ æ s ɪ m ə n /; [1] born 2 January 1951) is an Italian-American writer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he is currently a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust.
André Aciman's memoir Out of Egypt addresses the experience of his family in Alexandria. [24] Naguib Mahfouz's novel Miramar takes place in a pension belonging to Mariana, a Greek woman who laments the expulsions' effects on her life and business. [25]
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (2005) is a book by American writer Anne Rice, which depicts the life of Jesus Christ at the age of 7 to 8. Rice wrote the novel after returning to the Catholic Church in 1998.
Out of Egypt: The Roots of Christianity Revealed (1999) ISBN 0-7126-7962-6; Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus (2002) ISBN 1-59143-004-6; Christianity: An Ancient Egyptian Religion (2005) ISBN 1-59143-046-1; Christianity and Political Islam with Mounir Ghabbour (2010) ISBN 0-7043-7210-X
Mémoires sur l'Égypte (Memoirs Relative to Egypt), long title Mémoires sur l'Égypte, publiés pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte dans les années 1798 and 1799 (Memoirs Relative to Egypt Published during the Campaign of General Bonaparte in the Years 1798 and 1799), was a 4-volume series published by Institut d'Egypte in 1798–1801 (Years VI–IX of the French Republican ...
Sir Thomas Wentworth Russell (22 November 1879 – 10 April 1954), better known as Russell Pasha, was a British police officer in the Egyptian service.He was the fourth child and third son of the Rev. Henry Charles Russell, the grandson of the sixth Duke of Bedford, and his wife, Leila Louisa Millicent Willoughby, the daughter of the eighth Baron Middleton.
Margaret Stefana Hackforth-Jones MBE (née Drower; 8 December 1911 – 12 November 2012), known as Peggy Dower, was an English historian of Ancient Near Eastern History and Egyptology. [2]
He was a friend of King Edward VII, who as Prince of Wales, visited Baker with Queen Alexandra in Egypt. Other friendships were with explorers Henry Morton Stanley, Roderick Murchison, John H. Speke and James A. Grant, with the ruler of Egypt Pasha Ismail The Magnificent, Major-General Charles George Gordon and Maharaja Duleep Singh.