Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East
In the cities of the Arab world, while the media focus overwhelmingly on questions of religiosity and war, the future of urban modernity and political globalism is taking shape. As the Egyptian state reaches out to capture the apparent promises of neoliberalism, Cairenes struggle over and redefine their place, identity, and material welfare. \ \ Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet...
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A multifaceted look at life, culture, politics and society in modern Cairo
Introduction : contesting myths, critiquing cosmopolitanism, and creating the new Cairo school of urban studies11Cairo as neo-liberal capital? : from walled city to gated communities472Cairo as capital of socialist revolution?733Cairo as regional/global economic capital?994Cairo as global/regional cultural capital?1535Egyptianizing the American dream : Nasr City's shopping malls, public order, and the privatized military1936Cafe Latte and Caesar salad : cosmopolitan belonging in Cairo's coffee shops2217From Dubai to Cairo : competing global cities, models, and shifting centers of influence?2358Keeping him connected : globalization and the production of locality in Cairo2519Reconstructing Islamic Cairo : forces at work26910Urban transformations : social control at al-Rifa'i Mosque and Sultan Hasan Square29511Pyramids and alleys : global dynamics and local strategies in Giza31312Belle-epoque Cairo : the politics of refurbishing the downtown business district34513Upper Egyptian regionally based communities in Cairo : traditional or modern forms of urbanization?37514Place, class, and race in the Barabra cafe : Nubians in Egyptian media39915When the lights go down in Cairo : cinema as global crossroads and space of playful resistance41516A round trip to Isma'iliya : Cairo's media exiles, television innovation, and provincial citizenship44517Mulids of Cairo : Sufi guilds, popular celebrations, and the 'roller-coaster landscape' of the resignified city46518The Giza zoo : reappropriating public spaces, reimagining urban beauty48919Egypt's pop-music clashes and the 'world-crossing' destinies of Muhammad 'Ali street musicians513Afterword : whose Cairo?539
