February 2023
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14 Reads
International Journal of Middle East Studies
They ( infrastructures) are political structures and cultural forms that have, for some time, been associated as symbols, promises, and vectors of modernity.
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February 2023
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14 Reads
International Journal of Middle East Studies
They ( infrastructures) are political structures and cultural forms that have, for some time, been associated as symbols, promises, and vectors of modernity.
December 2021
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3 Reads
Égypte/Monde arabe
February 2021
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58 Reads
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1 Citation
International Journal of Middle East Studies
“They say the city never sleeps, they say it bursts at the seams. The city rotates and revolves. The city branches out. The city beats, the city bleeds.” This unnamed city is Cairo, Umm al-Dunya or “mother of the world,” at once a vibrant character and the pulsating backdrop of Ahmed Naji's scandal-rousing Istikhdam al-Hayat ( Using Life ) and countless other works in Egyptian literature. Cairo, Amitav Ghosh has argued in his autobiographical chronicle of historical research and anthropological fieldwork in the Egyptian Delta in 1980 and beyond, is “Egypt's own metaphor for itself.” If that is the case, what does this sprawling and pervasive synecdoche reveal and what does it obscure?