Alexandria: From Nasser to Lawrence Durrell

As the Library of Alexandria and the British Council in Egypt commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet ( Justine, 1957; Balthazar, 1958; Mountolive, 1958; and Clea, 1960), it might be fitting to remember a long-forgotten fact: Durrell’s Alexandria is not in any way a direct [...]