Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary North Africa Whether you are young or

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Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary North Africa Whether you are young orAlex Dika Seggerman Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism. While the work of diverse, major Egyptian artists during this era may have appeared to be secular, she argues, it reflected the subtle but essential inflection of Islam, as a faith, history, and lived