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" Remembering Cairo "
Moussa, Amal
Pena, Rob
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1106108
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TLpq2374350049
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Moussa, Amal
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Pena, Rob
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Remembering Cairo\ Moussa, AmalPena, Rob
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| College
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University of Washington
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2019
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2019
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Master's
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56
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| Abstract
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Cairo or ‘Al-Qahira’ means the victorious. Throughout its history, there have been many attempts by both internal and external forces to reshape Cairo into a controlled metropolis. However, the city always prevails. Eight years ago, at the height of the Arab Spring, millions of Egyptian youth took to the streets of Cairo all heading towards Tahrir (Liberty) Square chanting: "Aish, Horreya, Adala Egtema'eya"—bread, freedom, social justice. They marched against corruption, police brutality, and the evident deterioration and neglect of basic infrastructure and services all over Egypt. This thesis offers a series of potential future narratives set after a speculative revolution takes place in 2021, 10 years after the Arab Spring. In the absence of the previous socio-political framework, what is the identity of the newly revived Cairo? What kinds of spaces and activities can take place? How does Cairo prevail once again? The following narratives explore how abandoned, vacant, and contested spaces can be reclaimed and transformed to revive public life and create opportunities for self expression, cohesion and daily revolution.
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Architecture
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North African studies
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