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Cairo Cosmopolitan : Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 1900Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (563 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781936190102
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cairo CosmopolitanDDC classification:
  • 306
LOC classification:
  • DT146 -- .C35 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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?.
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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?.

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