TY - BOOK AU - Issa,Islam TI - Alexandria: the city that changed the world SN - 1639365451 AV - DT154 .A4 I87 2024 U1 - 962/.1 23/eng/20231219 PY - 2024/// CY - New York PB - Pegasus Books KW - Alexandria (Egypt) KW - History KW - Instructional and educational works KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-459) and index N2 - An award-winning British-Egyptian writer presents an authoritative history of the first modern city and how it has shaped our modern world, including its role as a global capital of knowledge as well as the site of plagues and violence ER -