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Cairo - City of Sand (Paperback)
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Cairo - City of Sand (Paperback)
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Cairo is a 1,400-year-old metropolis whose streets are inscribed
with sagas, a place where the pressures of life test people's
equanimity to the very limit. Virtually surrounded by desert,
sixteen million Cairenes cling to the Nile and each other,
proximities that color 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.
Cairo exists by virtue of these interactions, synergies of
necessity, creativity and the presence or absence of power. "Cairo:
City of Sand" reveals a peerless balancing act, and transmits the
city's overriding message: the breadth of the human capacity for
loss, astonishment and delight.
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