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Global Dreams : Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo

New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2014

1 Online-Ressource (209 pages)

Englisch

Print version: Koning, Anouk de : Global Dreams : Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo. - New York : American University in Cairo Press,c2014

978-1-61797-502-8 ( : electronic bk.)

978-977-416-249-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

HC538.C3 -- .K665 2009eb

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LOC-SH: Cairo (Egypt) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century ; Cairo (Egypt) -- Social conditions -- 21st century ; Middle class -- Egypt -- Cairo ; Social classes -- Egypt -- Cairo

Cairo (Egypt) ; Economic conditions ; 21st century ; Cairo (Egypt) ; Social conditions ; 21st century ; Middle class ; Egypt ; Cairo ; Social classes ; Egypt ; Cairo ; Electronic books

A look at the new face of Cairo after economic liberalization

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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Dreams of a Global Cairo -- Chapter 2 The Education of Class -- Chapter 3 The Logics of Reform -- Chapter 4 Class and Cosmopolitan Belonging in Cairo's Coffee Shops -- Chapter 5 Of Taxi Drivers, Prostitutes, and Professional Women -- Chapter 6 Global Dreams and Postcolonial Predicaments -- Bibliography -- Index