03680nam 2200745Ia 450 991077859850332120230120123751.01-61797-026-31-61797-390-41-936190-10-9(CKB)1000000000789593(EBL)1648993(SSID)ssj0000650672(PQKBManifestationID)12219115(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000650672(PQKBWorkID)10615829(PQKB)10612094(SSID)ssj0000628109(PQKBManifestationID)12276472(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628109(PQKBWorkID)10711281(PQKB)11184589(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035578(Au-PeEL)EBL3114713(CaPaEBR)ebr10409524(CaONFJC)MIL580519(OCoLC)948378236(Au-PeEL)EBL1635625(OCoLC)860625536(MiAaPQ)EBC3114713(MiAaPQ)EBC1648993(MiAaPQ)EBC6242531(MiAaPQ)EBC1635625(EXLCZ)99100000000078959320111018d2006 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCairo cosmopolitan[electronic resource] politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized Middle East /edited by Diane Singerman and Paul AmarCairo ;New York American University in Cairo Press20061 online resource (563 p.)Description based upon print version of record.977-416-289-7 977-424-928-3 Includes bibliographical references.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?.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 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.The original publication of this volume launched the Cairo School of Urban Studies, committed to fusing political-economy and ethnogrUrban policyEgyptCairoSocial changeEgyptCairoCairo (Egypt)Social conditionsUrban policySocial change306.096216Singerman Diane684741Amar Paul826525MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778598503321Cairo cosmopolitan3782595UNINA$20.0009/13/2019Hist