The modern ordinary: Changing culture of living in Egypt’s traditional quarters at the turn of the twentieth Century
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Authors
Abdelmonem, Mohamed GamalIssue Date
2016-05-26
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Having experienced social and political structures of the nineteenth century Europe, western-educated Egyptian elite used public institutions to force new legislative structures and procedures that ruled out traditional housing forms and spatial systems. This essay detects direct and indirect impact of these changes that informed the spatial change of modern living in Egypt in the first quarter of the twentieth century. It offers analysis of socio-spatial practices and change in ordinary Cairenes’ modes of everyday living, using social routine and interaction to explain spatial systems and changing house forms during the first quarter of the twentieth century. In doing so, the essay utilized archival documents, accounts, formal decrees and novels of the time as well as conducting survey of house forms and spatial organizations in Old Cairo.Publisher
Taylor & FrancisJournal
Middle Eastern StudiesAdditional Links
https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2016.1176918Type
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
1743-7881Collections