Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature Portraits of Cairo
An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nationalist movement.
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L i t e ra t u res an d C u l t u res o f t h e Is lamic Wo r ld Edited by Hamid Dabashi Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Hamid chaired the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures from 2000 to 2005 and was a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. His most recent books include Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire; Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker; Iran: A People Interrupted; and an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema.
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Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature Portraits of Cairo
Mara Naaman
urban space in contemporary egyptian literature Copyright © Mara Naaman, 2011. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-10865-3 All rights reserved. Map of Greater Cairo reprinted from Sabry Hafez’s article, “The New Egyptian Novel: Urban Transformation and Narrative Form,” courtesy of the New Left Review. Isma‘il’s Cairo (1869–1870) (after Abu-Lughod) reprinted from André Raymond’s Le Caire, courtesy of Études et Cartographie (Lille), Editions Fayard (Paris), and Harvard University Press (Cambridge). Map of downtown Cairo (the east bank) originally published in Samir W. Raafat’s Cairo, the Glory Years and reproduced by permission from Harpocrates Publishing, Alexandria, Egypt. Photograph of Tal‘at Harb Square (1986) reprinted by permission from Zbigniew Kosc. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-29143-4 ISBN 978-0-230-11971-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230119710 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Naaman, Mara. Urban space in contemporary Egyptian literature : portraits of Cairo / Mara Naaman. p. cm. — (Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world) 1. Egyptian literature—History and criticism. 2. Public spaces in literature. 3. Cities and towns in literature. 4. National characteristics, Egyptian, in literatur
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