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Lewes, Sussex: Book Guild, 1994. Fine/NrF. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on front endpaper. Inscription reads, 'To ---- -------/With my best wishes/H F Wissa/3.1.98'. Profusely illustrated with photographs. A well-researched and authoritative history of Egypt. It is enhanced and given a personal perspective via the parallel history of the author's family during the last hundred years. Central to the history is Esther Wissa, the author's powerful and crusading mother (1895-1990). She pioneered the education and emancipation of women. She was an Egyptian Christian feminist, who revolted against British colonialisation in 1919. In 1923 she established, with other women, the Egyptian Feminist Union which was affiliated to The International Alliance of Women For Suffrage. After the death of his mother, he decided to write her story and that of his family - a family that had, for nearly a century, been actively…
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Assiout: The Saga of an Egyptian Family Hardcover - 1994
by Hanna F. Wissa
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- Title Assiout: The Saga of an Egyptian Family
- Author Hanna F. Wissa
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition, F
- Pages 500
- Publisher Book Guild Publishing Ltd, Lewes, Sussex
- Date 1994
- ISBN 9780863329081
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Assiout: The Saga Of An Egyptian Family (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
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