Cairo Securitized by Paul Amar, Deen Sharp, Noura Wahby - 9781649034366

Cairo SecuritizedReconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience\nAuthor(s): Paul Amar, Deen Sharp, Noura Wahby\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: American University in Cairo Press, United States\nImprint: American University in Cairo Press\nISBN-13: 9781649034366, 978-1649034366\nSynopsis\n\""A compendiumof profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossedto the last page.\""Contemporary Sociology\n\nA rich examination of the securitization of the everyday lives of the citizens of Cairo and how to build a more equitable urban order\n\n Until the year 2000, Cairo had been a model megacity, relatively crime free, safe, and public facing. It featured a thriving public culture and vibrant street life. In recent decades, however, the Egyptian state has accelerated a wholesale dismantlement of public education and public sector jobs and reversed the modest land reforms of the Nasser era. As a result, the vasts