Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East Год выпуска: 2006Автор: Diane Singerman, Paul AmarИздательство: American University in Cairo PressСтраниц: 542ISBN: 9774249283Описание A social and political geography of contemporary Cairo, this volume examines vernacular world-making through a 'grounded cosmopolitan' approach that builds new interdisciplinary methods for Middle East studies. Global stereotypes and certain social science agendas have tended to portray Cairo as a city of misery, a menacing population bomb, a morbid pharaonic tomb, or as the violent crossroads of the 'Arab street.' Today's Arab world is often perceived to be overwhelmed by war, poverty, violence, and religious radicalism. However, this image ignores a vast array of new phenomena and contests that are remaking the Middle East. Cairo's twenty-first century landscape is marked by surprising juxtapositions, where luxury malls compete with open-air markets, where gated communities grow on the ruins of socialist settlements, and where an Egyptian nationalistic renaissance meets new assertions of Nubian and transnational identity. To challenge pervasive myths about...
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