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Alexandria represents one of the most striking examples of colonial cosmopolitanism, with a nineteenth-century boom that was fueled by migration from around the Mediterranean basin and beyond. Writing from Montreal, Victor Teboul remembers the Alexandrian mosaic in autobiographical novels, illustrating his colorful post-World War II polyglot Sephardic Jewish childhood alongside several other communities. He also points to the rise of radical Egyptian nationalism that pushed minorities out in the name of ethno-linguistic and religious purity. Through his family’s peripatetic exile, Teboul realizes Egypt’s importance in shaping his identity as well as the long history of migration that defines the Mediterranean.