Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity HISTORY / Middle East / General" just as he awaited his

just as he awaited his

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Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity HISTORY / Middle East / General" just as he awaited hisDiane SingermanThis cross disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but do not stop the publics role in the remaking of their city. What happens to a city where neo liberalism has scaled back public services and