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Cairo - Histories of a City (Paperback)
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Cairo - Histories of a City (Paperback)
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From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids
of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in
Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle
East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar AlSayyad narrates the
many Cairos that have existed throughout time, offering a panoramic
view of the city's history unmatched in temporal and geographic
scope, through an in-depth examination of its architecture and
urban form. In twelve vignettes, accompanied by drawings,
photographs, and maps, AlSayyad details the shifts in Cairo's built
environment through stories of important figures who marked the
cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political
ideologies. The city is visually reconstructed and brought to life
not only as a physical fabric but also as a social and political
order-a city built within, upon, and over, resulting in a
present-day richly layered urban environment. Each chapter attempts
to capture a defining moment in the life trajectory of a city loved
for all of its evocations and contradictions. Throughout, AlSayyad
illuminates not only the spaces that make up Cairo but also the
figures that shaped them, including its chroniclers, from Herodotus
to Mahfouz, who recorded the deeds of great and ordinary Cairenes
alike. He pays particular attention to how the imperatives of
Egypt's various rulers and regimes-from the pharaohs to Sadat and
beyond-have inscribed themselves in the city that residents
navigate today.
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