Nezar AlSayyad
Auteur van Cairo: Histories of a City
Over de Auteur
Nezar AlSayyad is Professor of Architecture, Planning and Urban History at the University of California at Berkeley
Werken van Nezar AlSayyad
Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization (Transnational Perspectives… (2002) 14 exemplaren
Making Cairo Medieval (Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place) (2005) — Redacteur — 10 exemplaren
Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism (Contributions to the Study of World History) (1991) 5 exemplaren
Consuming tradition, manufacturing heritage : global norms and urban forms in the age of tourism (2001) 3 exemplaren
Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise (Ethnoscapes) (1992) 2 exemplaren
¿Europa musulmana o Euro-Islam? política, cultura y ciudadanía en la era de la globalización (2003) 1 exemplaar
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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.… (meer)