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An earlier version of Chapter 5 appeared in: Samia Mehrez, Egypts Culture Wars: Politics and Practice (London: Routledge, 2008), 14468. Reproduced by permission.
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Khaled Adham is an architect, assistant professor at the United Arab Emirates University, and an associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Suez Canal University. His publications and current research activities are focused on contemporary architectural and urban transformations of Cairo, Doha, and Dubai.
Jennifer Bell is an independent scholar in New York City. Her 2006 PhD dissertation at New York University, Power, Politics and Pollution: The Political Economy of Environmentalism in Egypt focuses on environmental activism and urban politics in Cairo.
Agns Deboulet is professor of sociology at the Ecole Nationale Suprieure dArchitecture de Paris-la Villette. She has carried out research on popular urbanization in Cairo, and more recently, Beirut, and currently works on urban renewal processes and migrations. She is the author and editor of Les Comptences des Citadins dans le Monde Arabe (with I. Berry-Chikhaoui, 2001); Dynamiques de la Pauvret en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient (with B. Destremau and F. Ireton, 2004); and Villes Internationales: Entre Tensions et Ractions des Habitants (I. Berry-Chikhaoui and L. Roulleau Berger, 2007).
Taline Djerdjerian is a sociocultural anthropologist and has taught for several years at Concordia University, Montreal. Her research interests focus on poverty, female-headed households, and womens changing roles in Armenian society since gaining independence from the former Soviet Union.
W.J. Dorman lectures on Middle East politics at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. His research interests include state-society relations and the impact of authoritarianism on state capacity in Egypt and Iraq highlighted by his work Informal Cairo: Between Islamist Insurgency and the Neglectful State? published in Security Dialogue (2009).
Bndicte Florin is a professor of geography at Tours University and a researcher at Equipe Monde Arabe et Mditerranen. Her publications focus upon residential mobility, spatial and social practices of Cairene housing projects, new cities, and gated communities as well as the effects of privatization on the garbage collection system on the Zabbalin community.
Jrg Gertel is a geographer and professor at Leipzig University. His publications include Globalisierte NahrungskrisenBruchzone Kairo (2009) and Krisenherd Khartoum (1993). He is the editor of The Metropolitan Food System of Cairo (1995), and co-editor of Pastoral Morocco: Globalizing Scapes of Mobility and Insecurity (2007).
Katarzyna Grabska was research coordinator and researcher at the FMRS program at the American University in Cairo. Between 2002 and 2006, she conducted research on the economic conditions of Sudanese refugees in Egypt and policies toward forced migrants. She is currently completing a doctorate at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, with a focus on changes in gender relations resulting from displacement among southern Sudanese refugees returning to Sudan.
Patrick Haenni is a researcher at the Religioscope Foundation (www.religion.info), co-president of the Polarits Foundation, and a scientific adviser at the Humanitarian Dialogue Institute. Previously, he has been a researcher at the Centre dtudes et de Documentation conomiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ) in Cairo and an analyst for the International Crisis Group in Lebanon. His publications on Islamization and Islamism in the Muslim world and the west include Lislam de March, lautre Rvolution Conservatrice (2005).
Kareem Ibrahim graduated from Cairo Universitys Faculty of Architectural Engineering in 1995. He is a founding member and former president of the Egyptian Earth Construction Association, and has designed environmentally and culturally appropriate architecture throughout Egypt. Before joining Aga Khan Cultural ServicesEgypt in 1997, he worked on the United Nations Development Programmes Historic Cairo Rehabilitation Project. He is currently the technical coordinator of the Darb al-Ahmar Revitalization Project, overseeing the rehabilitation of houses, the construction of public buildings, and the development of the districts planning activities.
Samia Mehrez is professor of Arabic literature at the American University in Cairo. She is author of Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction (1994, 2005), Egypts Culture Wars (2008), and The Literary Atlas of Cairo and The Literary Life of Cairo (forthcoming), which will be published simultaneously in English and Arabic. She has also published on postcolonial literatures, translation theory, gender studies, and cultural studies.
Sarah Ben Nfissa is a political science researcher at lInstitut de Recherche pour le Dveloppement. Her major publications include Vote et Dmocratie dans lgypte Contemporaine (2005), NGOs and Governance in the Arab World (2005), and Associations et Pouvoirs dans le Monde Arabe (2002).
Agnieszka Paczynska is associate professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. She has written on economic reforms, political transitions, security, and globalization. She is the author of State, Labor and the Transition to a Market Economy: Egypt, Poland, Mexico and the Czech Republic (2009).
Samuli Schielke is a research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He has conducted ethnographic research about the contestation of
