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Remaking The Modern

Space, Relocation, And The Politics Of Identity In A Global Cairo

Overview

An ethnography of a housing project in Cairo, which demonstrates how the modernizing efforts of the Egyptian government runs headlong into the traditional customs of the area's low-income residents. Brings new meaning to the phrase "global and local."

ISBN 9780520230460 9780520230453
Category Cairo history and architecture
Call number HT384E32 C3444 2002
Physical description xii, 214 pages:illustrations, maps;24 cm.
Edition year 2002
Bibliographical references? Yes
Publisher name University Of California Press
Publication year 2002
Place of publication Berkeley
Language English
Is series? No

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