Cairo Cosmopolitan : Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East.
Singerman, Diane.
Cairo Cosmopolitan : Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (563 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Cairo -- Introduction Contesting Myths, Critiquing Cosmopolitanism, and Creating the New Cairo School of Urban Studies -- Cairo: The City Cosmopolitan -- 1 Cairo as Neoliberal Capital? -- 2 Cairo as Capital of Socialist Revolution? -- 3 Cairo as Regional/Global Economic Capital? -- 4 Cairo as Global/Regional Cultural Capital? -- Cairo Consumer and Investor Geographies -- 5 Egyptianizing the American Dream -- 6 Café Latte and Caesar Salad -- 7 From Dubai to Cairo -- 8 Keeping Him Connected -- Cairo Heritage and Touristic Globalization -- Reconstructing Islamic Cairo -- 10 Urban Transformations -- 11 Pyramids and Alleys -- 12 Belle-époque Cairo -- Cairo Subcultures and Media Contestation -- 13 Upper Egyptian Regionally Based Communities in Cairo -- 14 Place, Class, and Race in the Barabra Café -- 15 When the Lights Go Down in Cairo -- 16 A Round Trip to Isma'iliya -- Cairo Celebratory Spaces and Vernacular World-Crossing -- Mulids of Cairo -- 18The Giza Zoo -- 19 Egypt's Pop-Music Clashes and the 'World-Crossing' Destinies of Muhammad 'Ali Street Musicians -- Afterword Whose Cairo?.
9781936190102
Urban policy -- Egypt -- Cairo.
Social change -- Egypt -- Cairo.
Cairo (Egypt) -- Social conditions.
Electronic books.
DT146 -- .C35 2006eb
306
Cairo Cosmopolitan : Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (563 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Cairo -- Introduction Contesting Myths, Critiquing Cosmopolitanism, and Creating the New Cairo School of Urban Studies -- Cairo: The City Cosmopolitan -- 1 Cairo as Neoliberal Capital? -- 2 Cairo as Capital of Socialist Revolution? -- 3 Cairo as Regional/Global Economic Capital? -- 4 Cairo as Global/Regional Cultural Capital? -- Cairo Consumer and Investor Geographies -- 5 Egyptianizing the American Dream -- 6 Café Latte and Caesar Salad -- 7 From Dubai to Cairo -- 8 Keeping Him Connected -- Cairo Heritage and Touristic Globalization -- Reconstructing Islamic Cairo -- 10 Urban Transformations -- 11 Pyramids and Alleys -- 12 Belle-époque Cairo -- Cairo Subcultures and Media Contestation -- 13 Upper Egyptian Regionally Based Communities in Cairo -- 14 Place, Class, and Race in the Barabra Café -- 15 When the Lights Go Down in Cairo -- 16 A Round Trip to Isma'iliya -- Cairo Celebratory Spaces and Vernacular World-Crossing -- Mulids of Cairo -- 18The Giza Zoo -- 19 Egypt's Pop-Music Clashes and the 'World-Crossing' Destinies of Muhammad 'Ali Street Musicians -- Afterword Whose Cairo?.
9781936190102
Urban policy -- Egypt -- Cairo.
Social change -- Egypt -- Cairo.
Cairo (Egypt) -- Social conditions.
Electronic books.
DT146 -- .C35 2006eb
306