REVISITED Alexandria 

(Alexandrie Revisitée)

ESSAY by Jacques Hassoun

PHOTOGRAPHS by Tony Catany, Anne Favret & Pierre Manez, Bernard Guillot, Nabil Boutros, Gilles Perrin and Reza

In the beginning was a village of Egyptian fishermen, Mariot - today Mariut.

On the outskirts of the village would stand a city founded by Alexander the Great, a city that would attract tens of thousands of Greeks, Judeans, and later Romans.

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Exceptional, single city, which in the history of urban planning, had only one equal, New York. The same concept of the city, same cosmopolitan, but even - radical - shelved for the indigenous population, at least for a time.

And Alexandria was the City of Arts and Letters, philosophers and mathematicians, but also one that saw the translation - at the instigation of Ptolemy VI Philometor - of a sacred book, unknown of all up to now. This event had a significant impact on culture. The book stopped being Tribal to becoming  first Alexandrian then Mediterranean, finally world.

Essay by Jacques Hassoun (Egypt).

56 Photographs by Tony Catany, Anne Favret & Pierre Manez, Bernard Guillot, Nabil Boutros, Gilles Perrin and Reza

Published in 1998

In French only

ISBN 2 909571 408 - EAN 978 2 909571 409

Few pages from the book 'REVISITED ALEXANDRIA' :

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