Category Archives: Egypt
“A Set of Love Songs to the City”: Composer Lisa Bielawa Reflects on The Alexandria Quartet (15 June 2011).
In her recent New York Times Opinionator essay, composer Lisa Bielawa reflects on how Lawrence Durrell’s writing helped to shape her ambitious “site-specific musical work,” Chance Encounter (2007): Musical experiences that heighten a sense of a place can actually break … Continue reading
“The One Significant Work About Egypt’s Levantine World”: Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff on The Alexandria Quartet (30 May 2011).
The Israeli novelist and critic Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917 – 1979) gave high marks to Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, calling it “the one significant book about Egypt’s Levantine world.” Kahanoff shared her appreciation for Durrell’s achievement in her 1973 essay, “A … Continue reading
Alexandria, Remembered: Once Upon a Time in Egypt (Foreign Policy, 25 April 2011).
Odette Tawil and Elie Moreno on Sidi Bishr Beach, 1959 (Photo: Elie Moreno) A brief nod to Lawrence Durrell appears in the opening of “Alexandria, Remembered: Once Upon a Time in Egypt” (Foreign Policy, 25 April 2011): But by midcentury, King … Continue reading
