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Everyday life practices after the event
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In Cairo collages, the large-scale political, economic, and social changes in Egypt brought on by the 2011 revolution are set against the declining fortunes of a single apartment building in a specific Cairo neighbourhood. The violence in Tahrir Square and Mohamed Mahmud Street; the post-January euphoric moment; the increasing militarisation of urban life; the flourishing of dystopian novels set in Cairo; the neo-liberal imaginaries of Dubai and Singapore as global models; gentrification and evictions in poor neighbourhoods; the forthcoming new administrative capital for Egypt – all are narrated in parallel to the ‘little’ story of the adventures and misfortunes of everyday interactions in a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi.

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Al-‘imaara (the building) as topos
Mona Abaza

1 Tale I: Al-‘imaara (the building) as topos Chapitre 1: Dans l’escalier Oui, cela pourrait commencer ainsi, ici, comme ça, d’une manière un peu lourde et lente, dans cet endroit neutre qui est à tous et à personne, où les gens se croisent presque sans se voir, ou la vie de l’immeuble se répercute, lointaine et régulière. De ce qui se passe derrière les lourdes portes des appartements, on ne perçoit le plus souvent que ces échos éclatés, ces bribes, ces débris, ces esquisses, ces amorces, ces incidents or accidents qui se déroulent dans ce que l’on appelle ‘les

in Cairo collages