Alexandria, gateway to the sea

Collection title

Mediterraneo

ID

INA00498

Source

INA (FR)

First broadcast date

11/15/1997

Production year

1997

Abstract

Alexandria keeps track of its 19th century cosmopolitanism. Some men, natives or living in this city, try to decipher its charm sometimes tinged with nostalgia. Elias Yannakakis, teacher at the University of Lille, finds traces of the Europeanized past in the Trianon pastry shop and in the tram station; Georges Moustaki rediscovers the school of his youth; for Edouard El Kharrat, a writer, this city has a deep and singular identity; Ibrahim Abdel Meguid describes its contemporary constraints: over-population and urbanization.

Type

video

Production companies

• RAI - Coproduction
• France 3 Marseille - Coproduction

Broadcaster

FTV - F3

Audiovisual form

Magazine

Personalities

• Yannakakis Elias
• Moustaki Georges
• Al Kharrat Edouard
• Abdel Meguid Ibrahim

Primary theme

Urbanism and cities

Secondary themes

• Historical heritages

Credits / Cast

• Sanguinetti Sampiero - Journalist
• Di Cesare Francis - Journalist

Period of events

• 1997

Map locations

• Egypt - Lower Egypt - Alexandria

Original language

French

Media running time

10m37

Additional information