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

by Mark Allen Peterson

Book Overview

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"