Utopia or the Anti-Tahrir. The worst of all worlds in the fiction of A. K. Towfik
If there is a symbol par excellence of the socio-economic changes spurred by globalization in Egypt, it is surely the gated community. Since the middle of the 1990s, their unbridled proliferation in Cairo’s peripheries, on public land sold for a song to private developers, has generated abundant ac...
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2024
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | If there is a symbol par excellence of the socio-economic changes spurred by globalization in Egypt, it is surely the gated community. Since the middle of the 1990s, their unbridled proliferation in Cairo’s peripheries, on public land sold for a song to private developers, has generated abundant academic work showing how neoliberal logics have resulted in the city’s privatization and urban fragmentation (Bouhali, 2008; Denis, 2006; Florin, 2012). Egyptian author Ahmed Khaled Towfik makes use... |
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