The Egyptian Coffeehouse

Author : Dalia Mostafa,Amina Elbendary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780755635283

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The coffeehouse is a microcosm of the larger Egyptian society with its history of multiculturalism and great diversity. It is not only a social space which was created and shaped by the people over decades in their streets, neighbourhoods and cities, but it also occupies a sphere in the popular imagination full of stories, memories and social networks. Despite the coffeehouse's cultural centrality and socio-political importance in Egypt, academic research and publications on its significance remain sparse. This volume aims to fill this gap by presenting, for the first time in English, a full study analysing the importance of the coffeehouse as an urban phenomenon, with its cultural, historical, economic and political significance in contemporary Egyptian society. The volume shows how historically the coffeehouse has always played a key role as a commercial enterprise; and culturally, as a place for rich literary and artistic production which has multi-layered representations in Egyptian novels, cinema and popular music, amongst other genres. Economically, the coffeehouse has been vital for accessing job opportunities, especially for informal workers; in addition to having played a crucial role in political mobilisation during decisive historical events, as well as in recent years during the 2011 revolution and its aftermath. Through extended interviews with six residents in Cairo, the authors further examine the role and influence of the coffeehouse as a significant feature of contemporary Egyptian life and urban landscape.

Author : Dalia Mostafa,Amina Elbendary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780755635290

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The Egyptian Coffeehouse by Dalia Mostafa,Amina Elbendary Pdf

The coffeehouse is a microcosm of the larger Egyptian society with its history of multiculturalism and great diversity. It is not only a social space which was created and shaped by the people over decades in their streets, neighbourhoods and cities, but it also occupies a sphere in the popular imagination full of stories, memories and social networks. Despite the coffeehouse's cultural centrality and socio-political importance in Egypt, academic research and publications on its significance remain sparse. This volume aims to fill this gap by presenting, for the first time in English, a full study analysing the importance of the coffeehouse as an urban phenomenon, with its cultural, historical, economic and political significance in contemporary Egyptian society. The volume shows how historically the coffeehouse has always played a key role as a commercial enterprise; and culturally, as a place for rich literary and artistic production which has multi-layered representations in Egyptian novels, cinema and popular music, amongst other genres. Economically, the coffeehouse has been vital for accessing job opportunities, especially for informal workers; in addition to having played a crucial role in political mobilisation during decisive historical events, as well as in recent years during the 2011 revolution and its aftermath. Through extended interviews with six residents in Cairo, the authors further examine the role and influence of the coffeehouse as a significant feature of contemporary Egyptian life and urban landscape.

Author : Dalia Said Mostafa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137593726

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The Egyptian Military in Popular Culture by Dalia Said Mostafa Pdf

This book examines a key question through the lens of popular culture: Why did the Egyptian people opt to elect in June 2014 a new president (Abdel Fattah al-Sisi), who hails from the military establishment, after toppling a previous military dictator (Hosni Mubarak) with the breakout of the 25 January 2011 Revolution? In order to dissect this question, the author considers the complexity of the relationship between the Egyptian people and their national army, and how popular cultural products play a pivotal role in reinforcing or subverting this relationship. The author takes the reader on a ‘journey’ through crucial historical and political events in Egypt whilst focusing on multi-layered representations of the ‘military figure’ (the military leader, the heroic soldier, the freedom fighter, the conscript, the martyred soldier, and the Intelligence officer) in a wide range of popular works in literature, film, song, TV drama series, and graffiti art. Mostafa argues that the realm of popular culture in Egypt serves as the ‘blood veins’ which feed the nation’s perception of its Armed Forces.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617973154

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The Coffeehouse by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian, and classically Mahfouzian, quest in search of lost time and the memory of a much-changed place. In a seamless stream of personal triumphs and tragedies, their lives play out against the backdrop of two world wars, the 1952 Free Officers coup, the defeat of 1967 and the redemption of 1973, the assassination of a president, and the simmering uncertainties of the transitional 1980s. But as their nation grows and their neighborhood turns from the green, villa-studded paradise of their youth to a dense urban desert of looming towers, they still find refuge in the one enduring landmark in their ever-fading world: the humble coffeehouse called Qushtumur. The Coffeehouse is a powerful and timeless novel of loss and memory from one of Egypt's most celebrated literary masters.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9774169999

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The Coffeehouse by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian, and classically Mahfouzian, quest in search of lost time and the memory of a much-changed place. In a seamless stream of personal triumphs and tragedies, their lives play out against the backdrop of two world wars, the 1952 Free Officers coup, the defeat of 1967 and the redemption of 1973, the assassination of a president, and the simmering uncertainties of the transitional 1980s. But as their nation grows and their neighborhood turns from the green, villa-studded paradise of their youth to a dense urban desert of looming towers, they still find refuge in the one enduring landmark in their ever-fading world: the humble coffeehouse called Qushtumur. The Coffeehouseis a powerful and timeless novel of loss and memory from one of Egypt's most celebrated literary masters.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307793850

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Karnak Cafe by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal. At a Cairo café in the 1960s, a legendary former belly dancer lovingly presides over a boisterous family of regulars, including a group of idealistic university students. One day, amid reports of a wave of arrests, three of the students disappear: the excitable Hilmi, his friend Ismail, and Ismail's beautiful girlfriend Zaynab. When they return months later, they are apparently unharmed and yet subtly and profoundly changed. It is only years later, after their lives have been further shattered, that the narrator pieces together the young people's horrific stories and learns how the government used them against one another. In a riveting final chapter, their torturer himself enters the Café and sits among his former victims, claiming a right to join their society of the disillusioned. Now translated into English for the first time, Naguib Mahfouz's tale of the insidious effects of government-sanctioned torture and the suspension of rights and freedoms in a time of crisis is shockingly contemporary.

Author : Mary Louisa Whately
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Egypt
ISBN : YALE:39002044559848

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Ragged Life in Egypt by Mary Louisa Whately Pdf

Author : John Bentley, IV
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1892975637

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Egypt Guide by John Bentley, IV Pdf

A guide to Egypt for the visitor. It contains historical background, along with full coverage of Cairo and its environs, and details on the pyramids, Nile Valley tombs and treasures, Alexandria, Luxor, Aswan, the Suez Canal Zone, Sinai Peninsula, the Oases of the Great Western Desert, and more. There are tips on diving, snorkelling, camel treks, hiking, cafes, antiquities museums, nightlife and shopping. This second edition features revised information on Egypt's hotels and restaurants.

Author : Human Relations Area Files, inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Human geography
ISBN : UOM:39015039433332

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Country Survey Series by Human Relations Area Files, inc Pdf

Author : Scott Marcus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015064215737

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Music in Egypt: Includes CD by Scott Marcus Pdf

This volume focuses on the variety of music that fill the eastern Arab world, with special focus on the musics found in modern day Egypt.

Author : Ralph S. Hattox
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295805498

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Coffee and Coffeehouses by Ralph S. Hattox Pdf

Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the period, the author recounts the colorful early history of the spread of coffee and the influence of coffeehouses in the medieval Near East. Detailed descriptions of the design, atmosphere, management, and patrons of early coffeehouses make fascinating reading for anyone interested in the history of coffee and the unique institution of the coffeehouse in urban Muslim society

Author : M. L. Whately
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026849765

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Ragged Life in Egypt, and More about Ragged Life in Egypt. ... New Edition by M. L. Whately Pdf

Author : Robert Pateman
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 185435535X

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Egypt by Robert Pateman Pdf

Discusses the geography, history, government, economy, and culture of the Middle Eastern country that at one time had the most advanced civilization the world had yet seen.

Author : Donald Newton Wilber,Fahim Issa Qubain,Helene L. Boatner
Publisher : New Haven [Conn.] : HRAF Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Egypt
ISBN : UOM:39015046434133

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United Arab Republic, Egypt: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture by Donald Newton Wilber,Fahim Issa Qubain,Helene L. Boatner Pdf

General study of Egypt, with particular reference to the impact of Arab socialist and nationalist movements on recent developments - covers historical and geographical aspects, cultural factors, government structures, politics, education, agriculture, trade, economic policy, fiscal policy, social policy, political leadership, etc. Selected bibliography pp. 427 to 437, and statistical tables.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106501885

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Parliamentary Papers by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf