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Politics, Economics, and Social Issues

Understanding Cairo
David Sims

Trying to make sense of the urban giant that is Cairo 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...

Jan2011
304pp.
15X23 cm
$29.50 - LE 150.00
ISBN 978 977 416 404 0
For sale worldwide

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A Convergence of Civilizations
The Transformation of Muslim Societies around the World
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A New Muslim Order
The Shia and the Middle East Sectarian Crisis
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Access to Knowledge in Egypt
New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Development
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Lawrence Pintak
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Arab Society
Class, Gender, Power, and Development
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Saad Eddin Ibrahim
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Arab Television Today
Naomi Sakr
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Arab Women and Economic Development
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Avenues of Participation
Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo
Diane Singerman
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Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness
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Bedouins by the Lake
Environment, Change, and Sustainability in Southern Egypt
Ahmed Belal
John Briggs
Joanne Sharp
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Between Marriage and the Market
Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
Homa Hoodfar
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Between Memory and Desire
The Middle East in a Troubled Age
R. Stephen Humphreys
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Beyond the Exotic
Women’s Histories in Islamic Societies
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Beyond the Façade
Political Reform in the Arab World
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Julia Choucair-Vizoso
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Beyond the Victim
The Politics and Ethics of Empowering Cairo’s Street Children
Kamal Fahmi
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Cairo Contested
Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
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Cairo Contested
Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
Edited by Diane Singerman
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Cairo Cosmopolitan
Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East
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Paul Amar
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Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East
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