Its importance – it was once a rival to Rome – is forgotten, but Issa takes the reader on a mesmerising journey through the city’s history, its stories, and its tragedies. Keep reading list of 3 items list 1 of 3 What happened during Egypt’s January 25 revolution? list 2 of 3 Cleopatra was Egyptian - whether Black or brown matters less list 3 of 3 Egypt repatriates looted ancient Green Coffin sarcophagus from US end of listĪlexandria: The City that Changed the World, by Egyptian-British academic Islam Issa, himself one of the 100th generation of Alexandrians, is the biography of what is now Egypt’s second city.Īlexandria, the bride of the sea as it is nicknamed in Arabic today in reference to its Mediterranean location, is often ignored when discussing the world’s greatest cities.
