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Author:   Nezar AlSayyad
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.940kg
ISBN:  

9780367895938

ISBN 10:   0367895935
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   30 December 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Histories 1.1. Cairo: The State of a City Nezar AlSayyad 1.2. Al-Qata’iʿ: A Lost City in Cairo – Revisited Tarek Swelim 1.3. Cairo as a Palace: Rituals of the Fatimid Caliphate Ayman Fouad Sayyid 1.4. Building Mamluk Cairo: The Capital of a Sultanate Omniya Abdel Barr 1.5. Coopting the Street: The Urban Character of Mamluk Architecture in Cairo Nasser Rabbat 1.6. 1340 Years of Cairo’s Medieval Necropolis Galila El Kadi 1.7. Policing Cairo in the Nineteenth Century Khaled Fahmy 1.8. Khedivial Cairo: The Genesis of the Modern City and the Prospects of its Downtown Soheir Hawas 1.9. Tahrir Square: The Roundabout and the History of Modern Cairo Mariam Abdelazim Part 2: Representations 2.1. The Skylines of Cairo: A Photographic Essay Karim Badr 2.2. The Earliest Images of Cairo’s Islamic Architecture Doris Behrens-Abouseif 2.3. Seeing Cairo Through Paris: Nineteenth Century Literary Observations by Egyptian Intellectuals Kinda AlSamara 2.4. Sayings and Songs: On the Intangible Culture of Cairo Ahmed O. El-Kholei 2.5. Cairo Through Her Eyes: Space and Gender Dynamics in Naguib Mahfouz’s Bayn Al-Qasrayn Mohammad Salama 2.6. The Judge, the Officer and the Demiurge: Figures and Figurations of Old Cairo Ann Madoeuf 2.7. Cairo on Film: The Modernity of a Cinematic City Nezar AlSayyad 2.8. Revolutionary Cairo: The City Still Remembers Dina Ezzat Part 3: Discourses 3.1. The Normalization of Hijab: Islamic Reveiling in Cairo Sherifa Zuhur 3.2. Informal Cairo: The Making of an Urban Fabric Ahmed M. Soliman 3.3. Cairo’s Desert Backyard: The Future of an Ever-Growing Metropolis? David Sims 3.4. (Re)Connecting with Wounded Spaces: Encountering Memory, Place and Narrative in Cairo’s Historic Landscape Gehan Selim 3.5. An Untold Urban Narrative: Transcending Gender, Culture and Modernity in Cairo’s Old Quarters Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem 3.6. Rethinking Urban Transformations in Cairo: A View From ‘Middle’ Class Housing in al-Mohandiseen Khaled Adham 3.7. Government Visions: A Planner’s Perspective on the Remaking of Cairo Sahar Attia 3.8. The Transformation of Public Space in Post-Revolutionary Cairo: A Diary from Tahrir, 2011-2013 Mona Abaza

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Any volume on Cairo is invariably an ambitious undertaking. AlSayyad's ambition is well realised in this impressive, multi-faceted collection that does justice to the City's rich texture of places, peoples, and pasts. It deals with a real and imagined City, in ways that foreground its ever-changing character and draw the reader into a dense mix of ancient and modern, materiality and the intangible, and the grand and the intimate. Aside from its obvious scholarship, what really stands out in this book is the passion its contributors share for Cairo. Mike Robinson, Professor of Cultural Heritage, Nottingham Trent University

"""Any volume on Cairo is invariably an ambitious undertaking. AlSayyad’s ambition is well realized in this impressive, multi-faceted collection that does justice to the city’s rich texture of places, peoples, and pasts. It deals with a real and imagined city, in ways that foreground its ever-changing character and draw the reader into a dense mix of ancient and modern, materiality and the intangible, and the grand and the intimate. Aside from its obvious scholarship, what really stands out in this book is the passion its contributors share for Cairo."" Mike Robinson, Professor of Cultural Heritage, Nottingham Trent University"

""Any volume on Cairo is invariably an ambitious undertaking. AlSayyad’s ambition is well realized in this impressive, multi-faceted collection that does justice to the city’s rich texture of places, peoples, and pasts. It deals with a real and imagined city, in ways that foreground its ever-changing character and draw the reader into a dense mix of ancient and modern, materiality and the intangible, and the grand and the intimate. Aside from its obvious scholarship, what really stands out in this book is the passion its contributors share for Cairo."" Mike Robinson, Professor of Cultural Heritage, Nottingham Trent University

Any volume on Cairo is invariably an ambitious undertaking. AlSayyad's ambition is well realized in this impressive, multi-faceted collection that does justice to the city's rich texture of places, peoples, and pasts. It deals with a real and imagined city, in ways that foreground its ever-changing character and draw the reader into a dense mix of ancient and modern, materiality and the intangible, and the grand and the intimate. Aside from its obvious scholarship, what really stands out in this book is the passion its contributors share for Cairo. Mike Robinson, Professor of Cultural Heritage, Nottingham Trent University

Author Information

Nezar AlSayyad is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Planning and Urban History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he designed and also served for two decades as Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). He is a founder and past President of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), and Editor of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR). Among his grants and awards are those from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Getty Center, Ford and the Graham Foundations, and a Guggenheim Distinguished Fellowship. He has authored and edited numerous books, several of which have been translated into other languages, among them Nile: Urban Histories on the Banks of a River (2019); Traditions: The Real, The Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment (2014); Cairo: Histories of a City (2011); The Fundamentalist City? (2010); Cinematic Urbanism (2006); Making Cairo Medieval (2005); and Cities and Caliphs (1991).

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