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Cairo : city of sand / Maria Golia.
- Title
- Cairo : city of sand / Maria Golia.
- Author
- Golia, Maria
- Publication
- London : Reaktion, 2004.
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- Description
- 232 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Cairo is a 1400-year old metropolis whose streets are inscribed with sagas, a place where the pressures of life test people's equanimity to the limit. Virtually surrounded by desert, sixteen million Cairenes cling to the Nile and each other, proximities that colour and shape lives. Packed with incident and anecdote Cairo: City of Sand describes the city's given circumstances and people's attitudes of response. Apart from a brisk historical overview, this book focuses on the present moment of one of the world's most illustrious and irreducible cities." "Cairo steps inside the interactions between Cairenes, examining the roles of family, tradition and bureaucracy in everyday life. The book explores Cairo's relationship with its 'others', from the French and British occupations to modern influences like tourism and consumerism. Cairo also discusses characteristic styles of communication, and linguistic memes, including slang, grandiloquence, curses and jokes."--Jacket.
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- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Vanishing point -- Artifice and edifice -- The guests -- Listening -- Ensemble.
- ISBN
- 1861891873
- OCLC
- 55133722
- SCSB-11528625
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library