Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East

by Diane Singerman

Book Overview

A new paperback edition of the first collected volume from the Cairo School of Urban Studies

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774162897
• ISBN13: 9789774162893
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"