Utopia or the Anti-Tahrir. The worst of all worlds in the fiction of A. K. Towfik

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4 octobre 2023

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Egypt revolution literature gated community socio and spatial inequalities

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Pagès-El Karoui Delphine, « Utopia or the Anti-Tahrir. The worst of all worlds in the fiction of A. K. Towfik », EchoGéo, ID : 10.4000/echogeo.17748

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If there is a symbol par excellence of the socio-economic changes spurred by globalization in Egypt, it is surely the gated community. Since the middle of the 1990s, their unbridled proliferation in Cairo’s peripheries, on public land sold for a song to private developers, has generated abundant academic work showing how neoliberal logics have resulted in the city’s privatization and urban fragmentation (Bouhali, 2008; Denis, 2006; Florin, 2012). Egyptian author Ahmed Khaled Towfik makes use...

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