Cairo Cosmopolitan : politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized middle east. / txt
Diane Singerman.
- xvii, 542 p. ill. ; plans ; 24cm. book
Contents: Contributors xi -- Acknowledgments XV -- Introduction -- Contesting Myths, Critiquing Cosmopolitanism, and Creating the New Cairo School of Urban Studies Diane Singerman and Paul Amar -- Cairo: The City Cosmopolitan : 1. Cairo as Neo-Liberal Capital? From Walled City to Gated Communities Eric Denis 47 -- 2. Cairo as Capital of Socialist Revolution? Omnia El Shakry 73 -- 3. Cairo as Regional/Global Economic Capital? Leila Vignal and Eric Denis 99 -- 4. Cairo as Global/Regional Cultural Capital? Said Sadek 153 -- Cairo Consumer and Investor Geographies : 5. Egyptianizing the American Dream: Nasr City's Shopping Malls, Public Order, and the Privatized Military Mona Abaza 193 -- 6. Café Latte and Caesar Salad: Cosmopolitan Belonging in Cairo's Coffee Shops Anouk de Koning 221 -- 7. From Dubai to Cairo: Competing Global Cities, Models, and Shifting Centers of Influence? Yasser Elsheshtawy 235 -- 8. Keeping Him Connected: Globalization and the Production of Locality in Cairo Farha Ghannam 251 -- Cairo Heritage and Touristic Globalization : 9. Reconstructing Islamic Cairo: Forces at Work Caroline Williams 269 -- 10. Urban Transformations: Social Control at al-Rifa'i Mosque and Sultan Hasan Square Yasser Elsheshtawy 295 -- 11. Pyramids and Alleys: Global Dynamics and Local Strategies in Giza Petra Kuppinger 313 -- 12. Belle-époque Cairo: The Politics of Refurbishing the Downtown Business district Galila El Kadi and Dalila ElKerdany 345 -- Cairo Subcultures and Media Contestation : 13. Upper Egyptian Regionally Based Communities in Cairo: Traditional or Modern Forms of Urbanization? Catherine Miller 375 -- 14. Place, Class, and Race in the Barabra Café: Nubians in Egyptian Media Elizabeth A. Smith 399 -- 15. When the Lights Go Down in Cairo: Cinema as Global Crossroads and Space of Playful Resistance Walter Armbrust 415 -- 16. A Round Trip to Isma'iliya: Cairo's Media Exiles, Television Innovation, and Provincial Citizenship Fanny Colonna 445 -- Cairo Celebratory Spaces and Vernacular World-Crossing : 17. Mulids of Cairo: Sufi Guilds, Popular Celebrations, and the 'Roller Coaster Landscape' of the Resignified City Anna Madoeuf 465 -- 18. The Giza Zoo: Reappropriating Public Spaces, Reimagining Urban Beauty Vincent Battesti 489 -- 19. Egypt's Pop-Music Clashes and the 'World-Crossing' Destinies of Muhammad Ali Street Musicians Nicolas Puig 513 -- Afterword Whose Cairo? Nezar AlSayyad 539 --
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City and town life Egypt--Cairo Egypt--Cairo Social conditions Egypt--Cairo Urban policy Social history Social change Economic history City planning