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Midnight in Cairo
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Raph Cormack is author of Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring ‘20s, which chronicles the lives of many of Egypt's biggest stars of the early twentieth century.
Show Notes:
The Amar Foundation has an archive of Mounira al-Mahdiyya songs such as the one we end the show with, "اسمع اغاني المهدية"
Raph also wrote about “Queer Life in Cairo in the 1920s” for the Gay and Lesbian Review.
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135 episodes
Manage episode 316739085 series 1734248
Raph Cormack is author of Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring ‘20s, which chronicles the lives of many of Egypt's biggest stars of the early twentieth century.
Show Notes:
The Amar Foundation has an archive of Mounira al-Mahdiyya songs such as the one we end the show with, "اسمع اغاني المهدية"
Raph also wrote about “Queer Life in Cairo in the 1920s” for the Gay and Lesbian Review.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
135 episodes
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