Routledge handbook on Cairo : histories, representations and discourses / edited by Nezar AlSayyad.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2023.
Description
1 online resource (461 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans

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Routledge handbooks. [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print version record.
Contents
  • Histories
  • Cairo: the state of a city / Nezar AlSayyad
  • Al-Qata'i: a lost city in Cairo - revisited / Tarek Swelim
  • Cairo as a palace : rituals of the Fatimid caliphate / Ayman Fouad Sayyid
  • Building Mamluk Cairo : the capital of a sultanate / Omniya Abdel Barr
  • Coopting the street : the urban character of a Mamluk architecture in Cairo / Nasser Rabbat
  • 1340 years of Cairo's medieval necropolis / Galila El Kadi
  • Policing Cairo in the nineteenth century / Khaled Fahmy
  • Khedivial Cairo : the genesis of the modern city and the prospects of its downtown / Soheir Hawas
  • Tahrir Square : the roundabout and the history of modern Cairo / Mariam Abdelazim
  • Representations
  • The skylines of Cairo : a photographic essay / Karim Badr
  • The earliest images of Cairo's Islamic architecture / Doris Behrens-Abouseif
  • Seeing Cairo through Paris : nineteenth-century literary observations by Egyptian intellectuals / Kinda AlSamara
  • Sayings and songs : on the intangible culture of Cairo / Ahmed O. El-Kholei
  • Cairo through her eyes : space and gender dynamics in Naguib Mahfouz's Bayn Al-Qasrayn / Mohammad Salama
  • The judge, the officer and the demiurge : figures and figurations of old Cairo / Ann Madoeuf
  • Cairo on film : the modernity of a cinematic city / Nezar AlSayyad
  • Revolutionary Cairo : the city still remembers / Dina Azzat
  • Discourses
  • Informal Cairo : the making of an urban fabric / Ahmed M. Soliman
  • Cairo's desert backyard : the future of an ever-growing metropolis? / David Sims
  • (Re)Connecting with wounded spaces : encountering memory, place and narrative in Cairo's historic landscape / Gehan Selim
  • An untold urban narrative : transcending gender, culture and modernity in Cairo's old quarters / Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
  • Rethinking urban transformations in Cairo : a view from "middle-class" housing in Al-Mohandiseen / Khaled Adham
  • Government visions : a planner's perspective on the remaking of Cairo / Sahar Attia
  • The transformation of public spaces in post-revolutionary Cairo : a diary from Tahrir, 2011-2013 / Mona Abaza.
ISBN
  • 1-00-301999-4
  • 1-003-01999-4
  • 1-000-78783-4
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