TY  - BOOK
AU  - Singerman,Diane
AU  - Diane Singerman
TI  - Cairo Cosmopolitan: politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized middle east. 
SN  - 9789774249280
AV  - DT146 D48 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Egypt, New York
PB  - The American University in Cairo Press
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Local
KW  - Egypt--Cairo
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Urban policy
KW  - Social history
KW  - Social change
KW  - Economic history
KW  - City planning
N1  - 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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