Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East
Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East
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Abstract
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 an 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. Luxury malls owned by the military or foreign investors compete with flourishing but criminalized open-air markets; Nubian, Upper Egyptian, and labor-migrant identities confront a renaissance of Arab nationalism; and chic new coffee houses, crumbling movie palaces, and resurgent working-class cultures offer radically clashing versions of public and gender sociability. This volume launches the Cairo School of Urban Studies, committed to fusing political-economy and ethnographic methods and sensitive to ambivalence and contingency, to reveal the new contours and patterns of modern power emerging in the urban frame. Cairo shows us that divergent cosmopolitanisms—both elite and working-class—are emerging across a broad spectrum of the polity, making new claims for political space.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The City Cosmopolitan
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Consumer and Investor Geographies
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Egyptianizing the American Dream: Nasr City's Shopping Malls, Public Order, and the Privatized Military
Mona Abaza
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Café Latte and Caesar Salad: Cosmopolitan Belonging in Cair's Coffee Shops1
Anouk De Koning
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From Dubai to Cairo: Competing Global Cities, Models, and Shifting Centers of Influence?
Yasser Elsheshtawy
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Keeping Him Connected: Globalization and the Production of Locality in Urban Egypt
Farha Ghannam
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Egyptianizing the American Dream: Nasr City's Shopping Malls, Public Order, and the Privatized Military
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Heritage and Touristic Globalization
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Reconstructing Islamic Cairo: Forces at Work
Caroline Williams
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Urban TransformationsSocial: Control at Al-rifa′i and Sultan Hasan Square
Yasser Elsheshtawy
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Pyramids and Alleys: Global Dynamics and Local Strategies In Giza
Petra Kuppinger
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Belle-éPoque Cairo: The Politics of Refurbishing the Downtown Business District
Galila El Kadi andDalia ElKerdany
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Reconstructing Islamic Cairo: Forces at Work
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Cairo Subcultures and Media Contestation
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Upper Egyptian Regionally Based Communities in Cairo: Traditional or Modern Forms of Urbanization?
Catherine Miller
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Place, Class, and Race in the Barabra Café: Nubians in Egyptian Media
Elizabeth A. Smith
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When the Lights Go Down in Cairo: Cinema as Global Crossroads and Space of Playful Resistance
Walter Armbrust
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A Round Trip to Isma‘iliya: Cairo's Media Exiles, Television Innovation, and Provincial Citizenship
Fanny Colonna
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Upper Egyptian Regionally Based Communities in Cairo: Traditional or Modern Forms of Urbanization?
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Celebratory Spaces and Vernacular World-Crossing
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Mulids of Cairo: Sufi Guilds, Popular Celebrations, and the ‘roller-coaster Landscape’ of the Resignified City
Anna Madoeuf
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The Giza Zoo: Reappropriating Public Spaces, Reimagining Urban Beauty
Vincent Battesti
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Egypt's Pop-music Clashes and the ‘world-crossing’ Destinies of Muhammad ‘ali Street Musicians
Nicolas Puig
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Mulids of Cairo: Sufi Guilds, Popular Celebrations, and the ‘roller-coaster Landscape’ of the Resignified City
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