LEADER 03680nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910778598503321 005 20230120123751.0 010 $a1-61797-026-3 010 $a1-61797-390-4 010 $a1-936190-10-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000789593 035 $a(EBL)1648993 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000650672 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12219115 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000650672 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10615829 035 $a(PQKB)10612094 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000628109 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12276472 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628109 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10711281 035 $a(PQKB)11184589 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035578 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3114713 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10409524 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL580519 035 $a(OCoLC)948378236 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1635625 035 $a(OCoLC)860625536 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3114713 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1648993 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6242531 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1635625 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000789593 100 $a20111018d2006 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCairo cosmopolitan$b[electronic resource] $epolitics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized Middle East /$fedited by Diane Singerman and Paul Amar 210 $aCairo ;$aNew York $cAmerican University in Cairo Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (563 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a977-416-289-7 311 $a977-424-928-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aFront 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 -- Cafe? Latte and Caesar Salad -- From Dubai to Cairo -- Keeping Him Connected -- Reconstructing Islamic Cairo -- Urban Transformations -- Pyramids and Alleys -- Belle-e?poque Cairo -- Upper Egyptian Regionally Based Communities in Cairo -- Place, Class, and Race in the Barabra Cafe? -- 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?. 330 $aBringing 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 ethnogr 606 $aUrban policy$zEgypt$zCairo 606 $aSocial change$zEgypt$zCairo 607 $aCairo (Egypt)$xSocial conditions 615 0$aUrban policy 615 0$aSocial change 676 $a306.096216 701 $aSingerman$b Diane$0684741 701 $aAmar$b Paul$0826525 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778598503321 996 $aCairo cosmopolitan$93782595 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$20.00$u09/13/2019$5Hist