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Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s
One of the world?s most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and ?30s, a vibrant music, theater, film, and cabaret scene flourished, defining what it meant to be a ?modern? Egyptian. Women came to dominate the Egyptian entertainment industry?as stars of the stage and screen but also as impresarias, entrepreneurs, owners, and promoters of a new and strikingly modern entertainment industry.Raphael Cormack unveils the rich histories of independent, enterprising women like vaudeville star Rose al-Youssef (who launched one of Cairo?s most important newspapers); nightclub singer Mounira al-Mahdiyya (the first woman to lead an Egyptian theater company) and her great rival, Oum Kalthoum (still venerated for her soulful lyrics); and other fabulous female stars of the interwar period, a time marked by excess and unheard-of freedom of expression. Buffeted by crosswinds of colonialism and nationalism, conservatism and .
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