Cairo cosmopolitan : politics, culture, and urban space in the globalized Middle East /

Cairo cosmopolitan : politics, culture, and urban space in the globalized Middle East /

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Main Author: Singerman, Diane (Author)

Other Authors: Amar, Paul‏ 1968-

Format: Book

Language: English

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Urban policy > Egypt > Cairo.
Social change > Egypt > Cairo.
Cairo (Egypt) > Social conditions.

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Call Number: HT169 .E3 S59 2006

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : contesting myths, critiquing cosmopolitanism, and creating the new Cairo school of urban studies /
  • Diane Singerman and Paul Amar
  • 1.
  • Cairo as neo-liberal capital? : from walled city to gated communities /
  • Eric Denis
  • 2.
  • Cairo as capital of socialist revolution? /
  • Omnia El Shakry
  • 3.
  • Cairo as regional/global economic capital? /
  • Leila Vignal and Eric Denis
  • 4.
  • Cairo as global/regional cultural capital? /
  • Said Sadek
  • 5.
  • Egyptianizing the American dream : Nasr City's shopping malls, public order, and the privatized military /
  • Mona Abaza
  • 6.
  • Cafe Latte and Caesar salad : cosmopolitan belonging in Cairo's coffee shops /
  • Anouk de Koning
  • 7.
  • From Dubai to Cairo : competing global cities, models, and shifting centers of influence? /
  • Yasser Elsheshtawy
  • 8.
  • Keeping him connected : globalization and the production of locality in Cairo /
  • Farha Ghannam
  • 9.
  • Reconstructing Islamic Cairo : forces at work /
  • Caroline Williams
  • 10.
  • Urban transformations : social control at al-Rifa'i Mosque and Sultan Hasan Square /
  • Yasser Elsheshtawy
  • 11.
  • Pyramids and alleys : global dynamics and local strategies in Giza /
  • Petra Kuppinger
  • 12.
  • Belle-epoque Cairo : the politics of refurbishing the downtown business district /
  • Galila El Kadi and Dalila ElKerdany
  • 13.
  • Upper Egyptian regionally based communities in Cairo : traditional or modern forms of urbanization? /
  • Catherine Miller
  • 14.
  • Place, class, and race in the Barabra cafe : Nubians in Egyptian media /
  • Elizabeth A. Smith
  • 15.
  • When the lights go down in Cairo : cinema as global crossroads and space of playful resistance /
  • Walter Armbrust
  • 16.
  • A round trip to Isma'iliya : Cairo's media exiles, television innovation, and provincial citizenship /
  • Fanny Colonna
  • 17.
  • Mulids of Cairo : Sufi guilds, popular celebrations, and the 'roller-coaster landscape' of the resignified city /
  • Anna Madoeuf
  • 8.
  • The Giza zoo : reappropriating public spaces, reimagining urban beauty /
  • Vincent Battesti
  • 19.
  • Egypt's pop-music clashes and the 'world-crossing' destinies of Muhammad 'Ali street musicians /
  • Nicolas Puig
  • Afterword : whose Cairo? /
  • Nezar AlSayyad.