Cairo Contested
Cairo Contested

Author: Diane Singerman

Publisher: American University in Cairo Press

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 1617973890

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This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but do not stop the public's role in the remaking of their city. What happens to a city where neo-liberalism has scaled back public services and encouraged the privatization of public goods, while the vast majority cannot afford the effects of such policies? Who wins and loses in the "march to the modern and the global" as the government transforms urban spaces and markets in the name of growth, security, tourism, and modernity? How do Cairenes struggle with an ambiguous and vulnerable legal and bureaucratic environment when legality is a privilege affordable only to the few or the connected? This companion volume to Cairo Cosmopolitan (AUC Press, 2006) further develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies.

Revealing Reveiling
Revealing Reveiling

Author: Sherifa Zuhur

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1992-07-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1438424892

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In modern Egypt, the pace of Islamic resurgence has increased as in other Muslim societies. Throughout the twentieth century, Egyptian women have fought fiercely for political participation and for legal and educational reform to improve their status. To many of them, the adoption of a new form of the veil seemed retrogressive and ominous. This book explores the history of Muslim women and the debates over gender, which have developed since the golden age of Islam. It considers the opinions, goals, and ideals of fifty Egyptian women, veiled and unveiled, and compares their views to the gender ideology of the contemporary Islamists. Women's social backgrounds are examined in the context of the Egyptian state and its social policies.

Cairo Cosmopolitan
Cairo Cosmopolitan

Author: Diane Singerman

Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9789774249280

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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 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 ethnographic methods and sensitive to ambivalence and contingency, to reveal the new contours and patterns of modern power emerging in the urban frame. Contributors: Mona Abaza, Nezar AlSayyad, Paul Amar, Walter Armbrust, Vincent Battesti, Fanny Colonna, Eric Denis, Dalila ElKerdany, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Farha Ghannam, Galila El Kadi, Anouk de Koning, Petra Kuppinger, Anna Madoeuf, Catherine Miller, Nicolas Puig, Said Sadek, Omnia El Shakry, Diane Singerman, Elizabeth A. Smith, Leïla Vignal, Caroline Williams.

Remaking the Modern
Remaking the Modern

Author: Farha Ghannam

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2002-09-19

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0520230469

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An ethnography of a housing project in Cairo, which demonstrates how the modernizing efforts of the Egyptian government runs headlong into the traditional customs of the area's low-income residents. Brings new meaning to the phrase "global and local."

زهور في أرض مالحة, اكتئاب النساء في مصر اليوم
زهور في أرض مالحة, اكتئاب النساء في مصر اليوم

Author: Dalia A. Mostafa

Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9789774161858

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This study aims to fill a research gap in the phenomenology of Egyptian women's experiences and perceptions of affective suffering and psycho-social distress. Deconstructing disciplinary boundaries, it presents a cross-cultural insight into the interplay among women, culture, and psychological illness, and examines illness triggers, prevalent hierarchies of resort, and common treatment results. Cairo Papers Vol. 28, No. 4.

Women's Perceptions of Environmental Change in Egypt
Women's Perceptions of Environmental Change in Egypt

Author: Eman El-Ramly

Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9789774246302

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This research focuses on exploring and explaining women's perceptions of and social responses to environmental change. The research is gender specific, given the primary role of women as health care managers of their families. Thus, for women, environmental issues and health issues are closely related.