Michael Haag Ages 9-12 Kids' Books sku-35695924: Alexandria

Alexandria: City of Memory is a paperback by Michael Haag, listed under Ages 9-12 Kids' Books as sku-35695924. It portrays the city's literary, social and political life in the first half of the 20th century. Drawing on diaries, letters and interviews, Haag writes about its cosmopolitan residents and literary figures, including E. M. Forster, Greek poet Constantine Cavafy and Lawrence Durrell.

He describes a North African coastal city with historical ties to Western civilization and families rooted in Mediterranean trade and culture. The book covers Alexandria's Greek, Italian and Jewish communities, its experience of both world wars, the sexual and emotional dimensions of cosmopolitan life, and the social and political changes that led to Nasser's Egypt.