<strong>Egypt's Belle Epoque</strong> was a period of extravagance during which the Khedive Ismail's Cairo became the mirror image, both architecturally and soc... » 

Egypt's Belle Epoque was a period of extravagance during which the Khedive Ismail's Cairo became the mirror image, both architecturally and socially, of decadent Paris. The glamour and hedonism of the era reached its peak during the magnificent celebrations for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. This book discusses this period. «