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Cairo Collages: Everyday Life Practices After the Event

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781526145116, 9781526145123, 9781526145130
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7838522 bytes)
Pages
\215
Time added
2021-04-27 17:44:24

Description

With the military seizing overt power in Egypt, Cairo's grand and dramatic urban reshaping during and after 2011 is reflected upon under the lens of a smaller story narrating everyday interactions of a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi. Front matter Contents Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Tale I: Al-‘imaara (the building) as topos Tale II: Commute Tale III: My exhausted and exhausting building My flat: Nostalgia and al-zaman al-gamiil (the ‘beautiful old times’) The elevator saga: The degeneration of everyday material conditions Tale IV: Order Conclusion: Making sense of the collage Appendix I: Interview with E. D. Appendix II: Excerpts from interview with Laila al-Raa’i References Index

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