Chapter 19 Cairo After the Event: Fiction and Everyday Life

In: Islam in der Moderne, Moderne im Islam
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Mona Abaza
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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the paradoxical relationship between the center of Cairo (“Downtown”) and the gated communities in the satellite cities in the desert, by attempting to weave fictional narratives with reality, and by investigating how spatial and class polarization intensified after 2011. It is no coincidence that the counterrevolutionary moment that Egypt has experienced in the past years has led to the proliferation of a fascinating dystopian literature that turned the cityscape of Cairo into the center stage of hallucinatory apocalyptic landscapes. Furthermore, the exodus to satellite cities in both the eastern and western deserts poses another set of serious challenges and problems, in turn raising questions about how the future of Downtown will evolve.

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