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Article: The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Canadian Journal of History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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by Erik Hornung, translated by David Lorton. Ithaca, New York and London, Cornell University Press, 2001. viii, 229 pp. $29.95 U.S. U.S. (cloth).
In countless ways that most people remain barely aware of, an artificially constructed--but nonetheless powerful--image of ancient Egypt pervades modern life in the Western world. Symbols, stories, and traditions from an Egypt that the public thinks is authentic are everywhere, featuring in cultural offerings as diverse as the poetry of Rilke, movies like Tomb Raider and The Mummy, stories by Poe and Hesse, daily horoscopes, Agatha Christie thrillers, operas by Mozart; Mickey Mouse's incarnation as the Sorcerer's ...
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Article: EGYPT CAN SHOW MUSLIMS THE WAY FORWARD.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);
June 5, 2002 ;
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... ... read in Tuesday's New York Times that Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, says he ... for one simple reason: We don't need Egypt to be our policeman, we need it to be our progressive. What I mean is that we need Egypt to play the role that it played in Arab ...
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