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Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism - sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately - and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today. Adhering to his late father's belief that 'cities are nothing without people', Yasser Elsheshtawy writes not just about the buildings, but the lives lived in and around them. His narrative weaves together personal anecdotes and works of fiction and film, thus providing a textured backdrop to his central theme: the evolution of modernism in Arab cities. Following the introduction, the next ten chapters each focuses on a different city or town, moving from Hassan Fathy's Gourna to Cairo, Algiers, Rabat and Casablanca, Amman, and Beirut and then to the Gulf cities of Riyadh, Kuwait, Doha, and Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The book closes with a Coda - a tribute to the author's father, Hassan Elsheshtawy.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Modernism Fetish Chapter 2. Gourna: An Interesting Failure Chapter 3. Modernizing Cairo: Urban Transformations and the Inexorable March Towards the Desert Chapter 4. Algiers: 'Rock the Casbah' and Post-Colonial Legacies Chapter 5. Rabat, Casablanca and the Politics of Exclusion Chapter 6. Amman: A Tale of Two Cities Chapter 7. Beirut: Urban Violence, Heterotopias and Terrain Vague Chapter 8. Riyadh: Modernity, Tradition and the Quest for Identity Chapter 9. Kuwait: Spatial Marginalization and Exclusion Chapter 10. Doha: Urban Palimpsests and the Erasure of Memory Chapter 11. Parallel Modernities: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and 'Never the Twain Shall Meet' Chapter 12. Coda: My Architect, Hassan Elsheshtawy.
