City of imagined memory

"For me Alexandria is a city of nostalgic imagination, the dream of a lost cosmopolitan world. I've mixed the recording with "Voices," a poem by the Greek Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy, read in 1972  by the painter Yiannis Tsarouchis, and lapped two of the city's other languages against it like the waves. The French version is my adaptation; the English one  is by Daniel Mendelsohn. I am still searching for an Arabic translation. The final voice is that of an Egyptian melon seller. The 1972 recording is used by kind permission of Agra Publications and the Yiannis Tsarouchis Foundation."

Seaside at Alexandria reimagined by Maria Margaronis.