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UNINA9910455304103321 |
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Titolo |
Cairo cosmopolitan [[electronic resource] ] : politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized Middle East / / edited by Diane Singerman and Paul Amar |
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Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-61797-026-3 |
1-61797-390-4 |
1-936190-10-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (563 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Urban policy - Egypt - Cairo |
Social change - Egypt - Cairo |
Electronic books. |
Cairo (Egypt) Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover -- Contents -- Introduction Contesting Myths, Critiquing Cosmopolitanism, and Creating the New Cairo School of Urban Studies -- Cairo as Neoliberal Capital? -- Cairo as Capital of Socialist Revolution? -- Cairo as Regional/Global Economic Capital? -- Cairo as Global/Regional Cultural Capital? -- Egyptianizing the American Dream -- Café Latte and Caesar Salad -- From Dubai to Cairo -- Keeping Him Connected -- Reconstructing Islamic Cairo -- Urban Transformations -- Pyramids and Alleys -- Belle-époque Cairo -- Upper Egyptian Regionally Based Communities in Cairo -- Place, Class, and Race in the Barabra Café -- When the Lights Go Down in Cairo -- Mulids of Cairo -- The Giza Zoo -- Egypt's Pop-Music Clashes and the 'World-Crossing' Destinies of Muhammad 'Ali Street Musicians -- Afterword Whose Cairo?. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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