Connected in Cairo: Growing Up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East Art and Architecture A return of local community

A return of local community spirit

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renowned scholar Otto Meinardus reviewed the history of the official church from its earliest days to the end of the twentieth century

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profusely illustrated book separates fact from fiction to tell the ongoing story of the Great Pyramids

Connected in Cairo: Growing Up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East Art and Architecture A return of local communityMark Allen PetersonFor members of Cairos 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 carefully contextualized case studiesof Arabic childrens magazines, Pokmon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast food restaurantsMark Allen Peterson describes the