Mona Abaza

Cairo collages

Everyday life practices after the event

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781526145116
• ISBN-10: 1526145111
• Artikelnr.: 57164329

Autorenporträt

Mona Abaza (1959-2021) was Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology at The American University in Cairo. Over her vibrant career, her writing ranged from women in rural Egypt, the relation between Islam and the West, urban consumer culture, to Egyptian painting and the Arab Spring

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Tale I: Al-'imaara (the building) as topos 2 Tale II:
Commute 3 Tale III: My exhausted and exhausting building 4 My flat:
Nostalgia and al-zaman al-gamiil (the 'beautiful old times') 5 The elevator
saga: The degeneration of everyday material conditions Tale IV: Order
Conclusion Appendix I: Interview with E.D. Appendix II: Excerpts from
interview with Laila al-Raa'i References Index