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- catalog abstract ""Cairo is a 1400-year old metropolis whose streets are inscribed with sagas, a place where the pressures of life test people's equanimity to the limit. Virtually surrounded by desert, sixteen million Cairenes cling to the Nile and each other, proximities that colour 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13250831.
- catalog coverage "Cairo (Egypt) Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Cairo (Egypt) Social life and customs 21st century.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Cairo is a 1400-year old metropolis whose streets are inscribed with sagas, a place where the pressures of life test people's equanimity to the limit. Virtually surrounded by desert, sixteen million Cairenes cling to the Nile and each other, proximities that colour 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Vanishing point -- Artifice and edifice -- The guests -- Listening -- Ensemble.".
- catalog extent "232 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1861891873".
- catalog isPartOf "Topographics".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Reaktion,".
- catalog spatial "Cairo (Egypt) Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Cairo (Egypt) Social life and customs 21st century.".
- catalog subject "962.16055 21".
- catalog subject "DT144 .G65 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Vanishing point -- Artifice and edifice -- The guests -- Listening -- Ensemble.".
- catalog title "Cairo : city of sand / Maria Golia.".
- catalog type "text".