A Round Trip to Isma‘iliya
A Round Trip to Isma‘iliya
Cairo's Media Exiles, Television Innovation, and Provincial Citizenship
This chapter explores a new trend in the Arab world—provincial intellectuals abandoning the capital city to return to their rural origins. The focal point for this exploration is an in-depth profile of an important Egyptian television pioneer, set in the context of Egypt's controversial, strategic frontier region of the Suez Canal Zone. The Suez Canal Zone seemed a particularly important region to examine because of its contested, changing, strategic value, and because of the “modern” (post-nineteenth-century) history of its cities. The Canal Zone seems even to Egyptians to be promiscuously connected to alien lands and contexts. Culturally and socially the Canal Zone nurtures a cosmopolitan and multilingual atmosphere influenced by the legacies of the Canal as a multinational corporation and world crossroads of commerce. This history gives the area a particular rapport with Europe, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and the rest of the world.
Keywords: Arab world, provincial intellectuals, Egypt, Suez Canal Zone, cosmopolitanism, multilingual atmosphere, multinational corporation, commerce
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