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Show ' Alexandria. Alexandria, founded by the worfd Conqueror, Alexander the Great, Is an Egyptian city that Is eager to lose Its connection with the faraway past and become completely modernized. Fate has favored this ambition, for the wonders won-ders that Cleopatm knew have been eaten by fire or swept away by the sea. Alexandria Is a city of trade and fashion, dominated by prosperous Europeans Eu-ropeans too deeply absorbed In the stock exchange to be even vaguely interested in-terested In the romantic side of their 1 |