03808nam a22003737a 4500 pucpr 20240916154359.0 070710s2006 a fr 001 0 eng 9789774249280 9774249283 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET DT146 D48 2006 Singerman, Diane 277525 Cairo Cosmopolitan : politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized middle east. / Diane Singerman. txt Egypt New York : The American University in Cairo Press , 2006. xvii, 542 p. ill. ; plans ; 24cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc 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 -- City and town life Local 73695 Egypt--Cairo Social conditions 219894 Egypt--Cairo Economic conditions 219894 Social conditions 171747 Egypt--Cairo 219894 Local Urban policy 183430 Local Social history 171773 Local Social change Local 171740 Economic history 90024 City planning 73701 Local Diane Singerman Paul Amar 217162 lcc 6 DT146 General D48 2006 217400 217400 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2009-09-08 amazon 34.50 450603 1 General DT146 D48 2006 91000000005769 2017-10-24 00:00:00 2017-09-15 1 44.50 2009-09-08 6