
Cairo Contested
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- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Contested City
- Contested Space, Authority, Security, and Meaning
- 1 Making or Shaking the State: Urban Boundaries of State Control and Popular Appropriation in Sayyida Zaynab Model Park
- 2 Cairo as Capital of Islamic Institutions? Al-Azhar Islamic University, the State, and the City
- 3 Policing Mulids and Their Meaning
- 4 The Siege of Imbaba, Egypt's Internal 'Other,' and the Criminalization of Politics
- 5 From the Hara to the 'Imara: Emerging Urban Metaphors in the Literary Production of Contemporary Cairo
- Cairo's Governance: Ambiguity, Legalities, Informality, and Mobilization
- 6 Cairo's City Government: The Crisis of Local Administration and the Refusal of Urban Citizenship
- 7 The Dictatorship of the Straight Line and the Myth of Social Disorder: Revisiting Informality in Cairo
- 8 Extract from a Diary: Marginal Notes on the Soft Dialectics of Historic Cairo
- 9 Of Demolitions and Donors: The Problematics of State Intervention in Informal Cairo
- 10 Banished by the Quake: Urban Cairenes Displaced from the Historic Center to the Desert Periphery
- 11 Cousins, Neighbors, and Citizens in Imbaba: The Genesis and Self-neutralization of a Rebel Political Territory
- 12 Economic Liberalization and Union Struggles in Cairo
- 13 Land Disputes, the Informal City, and Environmental Discourse in Cairo
- Markets, Marketing, and Globalized Identities
- 14 Market Spaces: Merchants Battle the Economic Narratives of Development Experts
- 15 Political Consumerism and the Boycott of American Goods in Egypt
- 16 Amr Khaled and Young Muslim Elites: Islamism and the Consolidation of Mainstream Muslim Piety in Egypt
- 17 African Refugees and Diasporic Struggles in Cairo
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