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Alexandria: The City that Changed the World | Islam Issa
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An original, authoritative, and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day. Islam Issa�s father had always told him about their city's magnificence, and as he looked at the new library (…more)
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“Perhaps every generation unconsciously perceives their own moment as the ultimate epoch, assuming that, for better or for worse, their present is how things will remain.”

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psalva Makes sense. Θαλλασα (thalasa) is the Greek word for sea. This is a new one for me though. 5mo
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