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  • The best price of Alexandria by Diwan in Egypt is 500 EGP
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  • Similar products to Alexandria are sold at Jumia, Noon with prices starting at 1,065 EGP
  • The first appearance of this product was on Oct 13, 2014
  • Amongst similar products of Alexandria the cheapest price is 129 EGP from Jumia

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(2014) One of the best guide books ever written, to a great city by a great novelist “Alexandria is still alive and alters even when one tries to sum her up . . . . Only the climate, only the north wind and the sea remain as pure as when Menelaus, the first visitor, landed three thousand years ago.” In the autumn of 1915, in a “slightly heroic mood”, E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet most of his time was spent exploring “the magic, antiquity and complexity” of the place in order to cope with living in what he saw as a “funk-hole.” With a novelist’s pen, he brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Greco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolized by the Pharos, where the doomed love affair of Antony and Cleopatra was played out and the greatest library the world has ever known was built. Threading three thousand years of history with vibrant strands of literature and punctuating the narrative with his own experiences, Forster immortalized Alexandria, painting an incomparable portrait of the great city and, inadvertently, himself

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Alexandria Price insights and history

  • The cheapest price of Alexandria in Egypt was 150 EGP from Diwan within the past 77 months
  • The highest price of Alexandria in Egypt was 500 EGP from Diwan within the past 77 months
  • The price difference between the cheapest and highest price of Alexandria in Egypt is 350 EGP from Diwan within the past 77 months
  • The average price of Alexandria in Egypt is 275.50 EGP from Diwan within the past 77 months

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