| Description |
1 online resource ([xix], 542 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Afterword |
| Summary |
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradictions and juxtapositions that are coming to define today's Middle East. The original publication of this volume launched the Cairo School of Urban Studies, committed to fusing political-economy and ethnogr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Manners and customs.
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| SUBJECT |
Cairo (Egypt) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Egypt -- Cairo.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Singerman, Diane
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Amar, Paul
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| ISBN |
1936190109 |
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9781936190102 |
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9781617973901 |
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1617973904 |
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