Bibliograph

Cairo cosmopolitan, politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized Middle East, edited by Diane Singerman and Paul Amar

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Cairo cosmopolitan, politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized Middle East, edited by Diane Singerman and Paul Amar

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cairo cosmopolitan

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

70696483

Responsibility statement

edited by Diane Singerman and Paul Amar

Sub title

politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized Middle East

Table Of Contents

Contesting myths, critiquing cosmopolitanism, and creating the new Cairo school of urban studies / Diane Singerman and Paul Amar -- Cairo as neo-liberal capital? : from walled city to gated communities / Eric Denis -- Cairo as capital of socialist revolution? / Omnia El Shakry -- Cairo as regional/global economic capital? / Leïla Vignal and Eric Denis -- Cairo as global/regional cultural capital? / Said Sadek -- Egyptianizing the American dream : Nasr City's shopping malls, public order, and the privatized military / Mona Abaza -- Café latte and caesar salad : cosmopolitanism belonging in Cairo's coffee shops / Anouk de Koning -- From Dubai to Cairo : competing global cities, models, and shifting centers of influence? / Yasser Elsheshtawy -- Keeping him connected : globalization and the production of locality in Cairo / Farha Ghannam -- Reconstructing Islamic Cairo : forces at work / Caroline Williams -- Urban transformations : social control at al-Rifaʻi Mosque and Sultan Hasan Square / Yasser Elsheshtawy -- Pyramids and alleys : global dynamics and local strategies in Giza / Petra Kuppinger -- Belle-époque Cairo : the politics of refurbishing the downtown business district / Galila El Kadi and Dalila ElKerdany -- Upper Egyptian regionally based communities in Cairo : traditional or modern forms of urbanization? / Catherine Miller -- Place, class, and race in the Barbara café : Nubians in Egyptian media / Elizabeth A. Smith -- When the lights go down in Cairo : cinema as global crossroads and space of playful resistance / Walter Armbrust -- A round trip to Ismaʻiliya : Cairo's media exiles, television innovation, and provincial citizenship / Fanny Colonna -- Mulids of Cairo : Sufi guilds, popular celebrations, and the "roller-coaster landscape" of the resignified city / Anna Madoeuf -- The Giza Zoo : reappropriating public spaces, reimagining urban beauty / Vincent Battesti -- Egypt's pop-music clashes and the "world-crossing" destinies of Muhammad ʻAli Street musicians / Nicolas Puig -- Whose Cairo? / Nezar AlSayyad

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