Description: Beverley Butler's ethnography of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina project critiques the underlying western foundational concepts and values behind the Library in a nuanced postcolonial examination of memory, cultural revival, and homecoming.
Review Quotes: "Beverley Butler's Return to Alexandria is a fine-grained analysis of what happens when the 30-year dream of reviving a beacon of universal learning becomes a reality... Return to Alexandria is an ambitious study, by a clever and extremely well-read museologist whom Neal Ascherson hails as a worthy successor to no less than Edward Said. " - Madeleine Hummler, Antiquity