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Abstract
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Past Is a Set of Old Clothes -- Part I: Setting the Scene -- Chapter I: 'Pardon Me, I'm Drunk' -- Chapter II: From Queen of Tarab to Prima Donna -- Chapter III: 'Come on Sisters, Let's Go Hand in Hand to Demand Our Freedom' -- Chapter IV: Dance of Freedom -- Part II: The Leading Ladies -- Chapter V: 'If I Were Not a Woman, I'd Want to Be One' -- Chapter VI: Sarah Bernhardt of the East -- Chapter VII: The Singer, the Baby and the Bey -- Chapter VIII: Star of the East -- Chapter IX: Come on, Tough Guy, Play the Game -- Chapter X: Isis Films -- Chapter XI: Madame Badia's Casino -- Part III: Curtain Call -- Chapter XII: The Second Revolution -- Conclusion: How to End a Story -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Sources and Further Reading -- Credits -- Index.
"Pardon me, I'm drunk" -- From Queen of Tarab to prima donna -- "Come on sisters, let's go hand in hand to demand our freedom" -- "If I were not a woman, I'd want to be one" -- Sarah Bernhardt of the East -- The singer, the baby, and the bey -- Star of the East -- Come on, tough guy, play the game -- Isis Films -- Madame Badia's casino -- The second revolution -- Conclusion : how to end a story.
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"A vibrant portrait of the talented and entrepreneurial women who defined an era in Cairo. One of the world's greatest twentieth-century cosmopolitan cities, Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and 30s, a vibrant music, theater, film, and cabaret scene flourished there, defining what it meant to be a "modern" Egyptian. Women came to dominate that scene-as stars but also as impresarias, entrepreneurs, owners, and promoters of the entertainment industry. Raphael Cormack unveils the rich histories of independent 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); her great rival, Umm Kalthoum (still venerated for her soulful lyrics); and other fabulous female stars. Buffeted by crosswinds of colonialism and nationalism, conservatism and liberalism, "religious" and "secular" values, patriarchy and feminism, this new generation of celebrity opened new horizons of possibility for women in Egypt and throughout the Middle East"--
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