Connected in Cairo: Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East

by Mark Allen Peterson

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For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more "modern" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies--of Arabic children's magazines, Pok mon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants--Mark Allen Peterson...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0253223113

ISBN13:9780253223111

Release Date:May 2011

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Class Communication & Media Studies Cultural Social Science Social Sciences

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