Cairo imprint: 257 books

Islamic Monuments in Cairo

The Practical Guide; New Revised Edition

by Caroline Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008

Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first...

The Literary Life of Cairo

One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City

by Samia Mehrez
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

Readings from literary works that re-construct a century of Cairo's changing social life. Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion volume immerses the reader in the complex network of socioeconomic and cultural lives in the city....

Cairo's Street Stories

Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, Garden, and Sidewalk Cafes

by Lesley Lababidi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008

In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic message of the continuing authority of the ruling Muhammad Ali dynasty to which he belonged, but it was not until the early twentieth century and the...

Understanding Cairo

The Logic of a City Out of Control

by David Sims
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012

This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies...

Creating Medieval Cairo

Empire, Religion, and Architectural Preservation in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

by Paula Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008

This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing...

Living with Heritage in Cairo

Area Conservation in the Arab-Islamic City

by Ahmed Sedky
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

The Arab-Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory. This is manifested in Cairo, the world's largest medieval urban system where traditional lifestyles are still implemented. Nevertheless, despite the extensive efforts to preserve Historic Cairo, it is sadly vulnerable....

Cairo Contested

Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

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...
by Humphrey Davies
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018

The map of a city is a palimpsest of its history. In Cairo, people, places, events, and even dates have lent their names to streets, squares, and bridges, only for those names often to be replaced, and then replaced again, and even again, as the city and the country imagine and reimagine their past....
by AA.VV., Aldo Don Rabino
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 11, 2016

10 come la maglia di Valentino, 10 come la magia, 10 come la memoria, l’incanto, la grazia, il tocco pregiato. 10 come il sogno che hanno tutti i bambini quando cominciano a correre dietro una palla e davanti alla vita. 10 come i comandamenti del pallone. E 10 anche come gli anni di Urbano Cairo...

Cairo Cosmopolitan

Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009

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...

Global Dreams

Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo

by Anouk de Koning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009

At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's...
by Mekkawi Said
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Cairo, Mother of the World, embraces millions-but some of her children make their home in the streets, junked up and living in the shadows of wealth and among the monuments that the tourists flock to see. Mustafa, a former student radical who never believed in the slogans, sets out to tell their story,...

Babylon of Egypt

The Archaeology of Old Cairo and the Origins of the City (Revised Edition)

by Peter Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

This book presents a history of Old Cairo based on new archaeological evidence gathered between 2000 and 2006 during a major project to lower the groundwater level affecting the churches and monuments of this area of Cairo known by the Romans as Babylon. Examination of the material and structural...

International Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 2

by Maysa Ayoub, Gerda Heck, Tsourapas Gerasimos
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019

This issue of Cairo Papers takes up the various dimensions of migration and refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean region over different periods in the last two centuries. It looks at both the migration of waves of Italians and Greeks to Egypt from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and...
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