CINEMATIC REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CHANGING GENDER RELATIONS IN TODAY&apos;S CAIRO

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Jocelyne Sa'ab, dir., Dunia: Balash Tibusni fi 'Enayya [Dunia: Kiss me not on the Eyes] (France, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, 2005). http://www.dunia-lefilm.com (accessed 10 January 2009).
Marwan Hamed, dir., Imarai Yaqubian [The Yacoubian Building] (Egypt, 2006).
Mohammad Khan, dir., Fi Shaqqat Masr al-Gedida [In the Heliopolis Flat] (Egypt, 2007).
From Madina to Metropolis: Heritage and Change in the Near Eastern City, ed. by L. Carl Brown (New Jersey: The Darwin Press, 1973); People and Pollution: Cultural Constructions and Social Action in Egypt , ed. by Nicholas Hopkins et al. (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001); Farha Ghannam, Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in Global Cairo (CA: University of California Press, 2002); Planning the Middle East City: An Urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalising World, ed. by Yasser Elsheshtawy (London: Routledge, 2004).
Egyptian Ministry of Information: http://www.sis.gov.eg (accessed 12 January 2009).
Janet Abu-Lughod, Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971), 182-83.
ibid., 188-220.
UN-Habitat website: http://www.unhabitat.org (accessed 15 January 2009).
'Alaa al-Asswani, The Yacoubian Building, trans, by Humphrey Davies (Cairo and NY: The American University in Cairo Press, 2004). Arabic as 'Imarat Yaqubian (Cairo: Dar Merritt, 2002).
Janet Abu-Lughod, "Cairo: Perspective and Prospectus," in From Madina to Metropolis: Heritage and Change in the Near Eastern City, 101-103. Galila El Kadi and Dalia ElKerdany, "Belle-époque Cairo: The Politics of Refurbishing the Downtown Business District," in Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalised Middle East, ed. by Diane Singerman and Paul 'Amar (Cairo and NY: The American University in Cairo Press, 2006), 345-71.
Kefaya's website is http://www.harakamasria.org (accessed 15 January 2009). Manar Shorbagy, "Understanding Kefaya: The New Politics in Egypt," Arab Studies Quarterly, 29:1 (Winter 2007), 39-60.
http://www.arabawv.org (bilingual, English and Arabic, accessed 10 January 2009) http://www.tadamonniasr.wordpress.com (Arabic, accessed 10 January 2009).
Human Rights Watch on Egypt: http://www.hrw.org/en/publications/reports (accessed 14 January 2009).
Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt Techno-Politics and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000); Timothy Mitchell, "Dreamland: The Neoliberalism of Your Desires"; "Reform or Reaction? Dilemmas of Economic Development in the Middle East," 210 (Spring 1999), 28-33; ibid., Joel Beinin, "The Working Class and Peasantry in the Middle East: From Economic Nationalism to Neoliberalism," 18-22.
Caroline Williams, "Reconstructing Islamic Cairo: Forces at Work," in Cairo Cosmopolitan, 269-94 (271).
Petra Kuppinger, "Exclusive Greenery: New Gated Communities in Cairo," City and Society, 16:2 (2004), 35-61. "Pyramids and Alleys: Global Dynamics and Local Strategies in Giza," in Cairo Cosmopolitan, 313-44.
Kuppinger, 'Exclusive Greenery', 50.
Ibid., 46.
Eric Denis, "Cairo as Neoliberal Capital: From Walled City to Gated Communities," in Cairo Cosmopolitan, 47-71 (49).
Timothy Mitchell, "Dreamland: The Neoliberalism of Your Desires," Middle East Report, 210 (Spring 1999), 28-33 (29).
Yasser Elsheshtawy, "Urban Transformations: Social Control at al- Rifa'i Mosque and Sultan Hasan Square," in Cairo Cosmopolitan, 295-311 (297).
Williams, "Reconstructing Islamic Cairo," 282-83.
Viola Shafik, Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998), Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2007); Mustafa Darwish, Dream Makers on the Nile: A Portrait of Egyptian Cinema (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998).
'Ataa Elnaccash, "Egyptian Cinema: A Historical Outline," African Arts, 2:1 (Autumn 1968), 52-55 & 70-71.
Shafik, Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation, 1-10.
ibid., 281-319.
issue 15 of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, entitled "Arab Cinematics: Toward the New and the Alternative," (1995).
"Souad Hosni: 'Indama Yartabit al-Fann bil Hayat" [Souad Hosni: Art and Life], in Nizwa Quarterly Journal, 43 (July 2005), 181-200 (Arabic).
Youssef Chahine's al-'Usfour [The Sparrow] (1973), 'Awdat al-Ibn al-Dal [Return of the Prodigal Son] (1976), Iskindiriyya .. Lih? [Alexandria. Why?] (1978); Shadi Abdel Salam's al-Mumia [The Mummy] (1975); Salah Abu Seif's Hammam al-Malatili [The Malatili Bathhouse] (1973), al-Saqqa Mat [Death of the Water Carrier] (1977), al-Bidaya [The Beginning] (1986); Yusri Nasrallah's Sariqat Saifiyya [Summer Thefts] (1988); Hussein Kamal's Tharthara Fawqa al-Nil [Adrift on the Nile] (1971); Ali Badrakhan's al-Karnak [Karnak] (1975), Shafika wa Metwalli [Shafika and Metwalli] (1978), Ahl al-Qimma [The People at the Top] (1981); Mohammad Khan's Maw'id ala al-Ashaa [A Dinner Rendezvous] (1981), Ahlam Hind wa Camilia [The Dreams of Hind and Camilia] (1989); Atef al- Tayyeb's al-Barei' [The Innocent] (1986).
Shafik, Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation, 5.
Hossam 'Ulwan, "Bahjat an Tahki Afradan" [The Joy of Narrating Individuals], an interview with Yusri Nasrallah, in Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 15 (1995), 157-88 (p. 169).
interview with Marwan Hamed and actress Youssra on: http://www.linktv.org/video/2548 (accessed 14 January 2009).

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[1] Jocelyne Sa'ab, dir., Dunia: Balash Tibusni fi 'Enayya [Dunia: Kiss me not on the Eyes] (France, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, 2005). http://www.dunia-lefilm.com (accessed 10 January 2009).

[2] Marwan Hamed, dir., Imarai Yaqubian [The Yacoubian Building] (Egypt, 2006).

[3] Mohammad Khan, dir., Fi Shaqqat Masr al-Gedida [In the Heliopolis Flat] (Egypt, 2007).

[4] From Madina to Metropolis: Heritage and Change in the Near Eastern City, ed. by L. Carl Brown (New Jersey: The Darwin Press, 1973); People and Pollution: Cultural Constructions and Social Action in Egypt , ed. by Nicholas Hopkins et al. (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001); Farha Ghannam, Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in Global Cairo (CA: University of California Press, 2002); Planning the Middle East City: An Urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalising World, ed. by Yasser Elsheshtawy (London: Routledge, 2004).

[5] Egyptian Ministry of Information: http://www.sis.gov.eg (accessed 12 January 2009).

[6] Janet Abu-Lughod, Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971), 182-83.

[7] ibid., 188-220.

[8] UN-Habitat website: http://www.unhabitat.org (accessed 15 January 2009).

[9] 'Alaa al-Asswani, The Yacoubian Building, trans, by Humphrey Davies (Cairo and NY: The American University in Cairo Press, 2004). Arabic as 'Imarat Yaqubian (Cairo: Dar Merritt, 2002).

[10] Janet Abu-Lughod, "Cairo: Perspective and Prospectus," in From Madina to Metropolis: Heritage and Change in the Near Eastern City, 101-103. Galila El Kadi and Dalia ElKerdany, "Belle-époque Cairo: The Politics of Refurbishing the Downtown Business District," in Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalised Middle East, ed. by Diane Singerman and Paul 'Amar (Cairo and NY: The American University in Cairo Press, 2006), 345-71.

[11] Kefaya's website is http://www.harakamasria.org (accessed 15 January 2009). Manar Shorbagy, "Understanding Kefaya: The New Politics in Egypt," Arab Studies Quarterly, 29:1 (Winter 2007), 39-60.

[12] http://www.arabawv.org (bilingual, English and Arabic, accessed 10 January 2009) http://www.tadamonniasr.wordpress.com (Arabic, accessed 10 January 2009).

[13] Human Rights Watch on Egypt: http://www.hrw.org/en/publications/reports (accessed 14 January 2009).

[14] Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt Techno-Politics and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000); Timothy Mitchell, "Dreamland: The Neoliberalism of Your Desires"; "Reform or Reaction? Dilemmas of Economic Development in the Middle East," 210 (Spring 1999), 28-33; ibid., Joel Beinin, "The Working Class and Peasantry in the Middle East: From Economic Nationalism to Neoliberalism," 18-22.

[15] Caroline Williams, "Reconstructing Islamic Cairo: Forces at Work," in Cairo Cosmopolitan, 269-94 (271).

[16] Petra Kuppinger, "Exclusive Greenery: New Gated Communities in Cairo," City and Society, 16:2 (2004), 35-61. "Pyramids and Alleys: Global Dynamics and Local Strategies in Giza," in Cairo Cosmopolitan, 313-44.

[17] Kuppinger, 'Exclusive Greenery', 50.

[18] Ibid., 46.

[19] Eric Denis, "Cairo as Neoliberal Capital: From Walled City to Gated Communities," in Cairo Cosmopolitan, 47-71 (49).

[20] Timothy Mitchell, "Dreamland: The Neoliberalism of Your Desires," Middle East Report, 210 (Spring 1999), 28-33 (29).

[21] Yasser Elsheshtawy, "Urban Transformations: Social Control at al- Rifa'i Mosque and Sultan Hasan Square," in Cairo Cosmopolitan, 295-311 (297).

[22] Williams, "Reconstructing Islamic Cairo," 282-83.

[23] Viola Shafik, Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998), Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2007); Mustafa Darwish, Dream Makers on the Nile: A Portrait of Egyptian Cinema (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998).

[24] 'Ataa Elnaccash, "Egyptian Cinema: A Historical Outline," African Arts, 2:1 (Autumn 1968), 52-55 & 70-71.

[25] Shafik, Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation, 1-10.

[26] ibid., 281-319.

[27] issue 15 of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, entitled "Arab Cinematics: Toward the New and the Alternative," (1995).

[28] "Souad Hosni: 'Indama Yartabit al-Fann bil Hayat" [Souad Hosni: Art and Life], in Nizwa Quarterly Journal, 43 (July 2005), 181-200 (Arabic).

[29] Youssef Chahine's al-'Usfour [The Sparrow] (1973), 'Awdat al-Ibn al-Dal [Return of the Prodigal Son] (1976), Iskindiriyya .. Lih? [Alexandria. Why?] (1978); Shadi Abdel Salam's al-Mumia [The Mummy] (1975); Salah Abu Seif's Hammam al-Malatili [The Malatili Bathhouse] (1973), al-Saqqa Mat [Death of the Water Carrier] (1977), al-Bidaya [The Beginning] (1986); Yusri Nasrallah's Sariqat Saifiyya [Summer Thefts] (1988); Hussein Kamal's Tharthara Fawqa al-Nil [Adrift on the Nile] (1971); Ali Badrakhan's al-Karnak [Karnak] (1975), Shafika wa Metwalli [Shafika and Metwalli] (1978), Ahl al-Qimma [The People at the Top] (1981); Mohammad Khan's Maw'id ala al-Ashaa [A Dinner Rendezvous] (1981), Ahlam Hind wa Camilia [The Dreams of Hind and Camilia] (1989); Atef al- Tayyeb's al-Barei' [The Innocent] (1986).

[30] Shafik, Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation, 5.

[31] Hossam 'Ulwan, "Bahjat an Tahki Afradan" [The Joy of Narrating Individuals], an interview with Yusri Nasrallah, in Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 15 (1995), 157-88 (p. 169).

[32] interview with Marwan Hamed and actress Youssra on: http://www.linktv.org/video/2548 (accessed 14 January 2009).