City Of Love And Ashes Yusuf Idris by Yusuf Idris 9789774246999, 9781617972041, 9774246993, 1617972045 instant download after payment.

City of Love and Ashes is set in Cairo in January and February of 1952, six months before the July Revolution that ousted the hated King Farouk and led later to the final expulsion of British troops from Egypt. The British had withdrawn from most of Egypt in 1947 but continued to occupy the militarized zone of the Suez Canal, on which the Egyptian nationalist underground resistance then focused: the long-lasting guerrilla offensive by Fedayeen such as this novel’s hero, Hamza, became known as the Battle of the Canal. On 25 January 1952, British troops attacked Ismailia police headquarters, leaving fifty Egyptians dead. The following day, Black Saturday, large parts of Cairo burned as angry mobs reacted to the news. Many people accused the king and the Wafd government of inciting the violence (or at least failing to curb it) to promote their own political agenda. Order was finally restored by the Egyptian army, in time to avert a reoccupation of the country by British troops. A government crackdown on underground groups followed, but dissatisfaction and dissension ran too deep by now, and on 23 July the Free Officers, led by Gamal Abd al-Nasser, made their move and entered history with their bloodless coup d’
etat that became a Revolution