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""A compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page.""—Contemporary Sociology A rich examination of the securitization of the everyday lives of the citizens of Cairo and how to build a more equitable urban order 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 vast majority of Cairo’s people have been forcibly deprived of their social rights, social goods, and educational capital. Eschewing the traditional focus on top-down regime and state security, the contributors to this volume, who represent a wide array of academics, activists, artists, and journalists, explore how repressive policies affect the everyday lives of citizens. They show the ways in which urban security crises are politically fashioned and do not emanate from the urban social fabric on their own: city crime, violence, and fear are created by specific means of extraction, production, and control. Another kind of city can live again. But how? By tackling a range of issues, including public health, transportation, labor safety, and housing and property distribution, Cairo Securitized unsettles simplistic binaries of thug and police, public versus private, and slum versus enclave, and proposes compelling new ways in which securitizing processes can be reversed, reengineered, and replaced with a participatory and equitable urban order. Contributors: Sara Soumaya Abed African Leadership Centre, Kings College London Zeinab Abul-Magd Oberlin College, USA Mohamed Ahmed Political Scientist and historian, Cairo Egypt Rania Ahmed Independent Researcher, Cairo Egypt Nicholas Simcik Arese University of Cambridge, UK Ahmed Awadalla University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Ahmad Borham The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Miguel A. Fuentes Carreño University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Roberta Duffield Scholar on urbanism, public space, Cairo Egypt Momen El-Husseiny The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Mohamed Elmeshad SOAS, London UK Ifdal Elsaket Netherlands-Flemish Institute, Cairo Egypt Mohamed Elshahed Independent Writer and Curator, Mexico City Amy Fallas University of California Santa Barbara, USA Tina Guirguis University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Elena Habersky The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Hanan Hammad Texas Christian University, USA Hatem Hassan Impact Justice, Pittsburgh, USA Amira Hetaba Federal Government of Lower Austria, Austria Deena Khalil The American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Omnia Khalil City University of New York, USA Sabrina Lilleby University of Texas, Austin, USA Paul Miranda Nonviolent Peaceforce, South Mosul, Iraq Mostafa Mohie American University in Cairo, Cairo Egypt Laura Monfleur University François-Rabelais, Tours, France Aya Nassar Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Nora Noralla human rights researcher, Berlin, Germany Aly El Reggal Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence Italy Afsaneh Rigot Harvard University, Cambridge USA Yahia Saleh Malmö University, Sweden Bassem al-Samragy political analyst at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands Yahia Shawkat Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Maïa Sinno Géographie Cités Lab, CNRS / Sorbonne University, Paris France Mark Westmoreland Leiden University, The Netherlands

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""A landmark in critical security studies and global studies from the global South. Bringing together some of the most astute emerging scholars, artists, and practitioners, Paul Amar's volume bypasses stale analytical binaries. Brimming with extraordinary insights and multiscalar analysis, Cairo Securitized is a model for future scholars seeking to produce cutting edge and methodologically and epistemologically innovative work.”—Omar S. Dahi, Hampshire College ""A must read. Cairo Securitized’s streamlined, diamond-cut contributions will captivate the general public, students, journalists, travelers, and policymakers. This bold and articulate group of scholar-activists sets out to remake Security Studies, Urban Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, and Global Studies from the street-level up. They unleash new concepts for comprehending Cairo, specifically, and, more generally, for shaping a more just and empowering urban social order in any of today’s increasingly unequal and insecure megacities.""—Bassam Haddad, George Mason University ""Cairo Securitized offers a remarkable and compelling new approach to understanding how security regimes permeate the geography of Cairo (its physical, temporal, and digital geographies) and the bodies that inhabit it. The collection of contributors and topics is exquisitely curated, and amplifies the voices of both scholars and activists from the region, reflecting a remarkable array of expertise. This volume will be essential reading not only for security studies scholars, but for anyone, in any discipline, studying the contemporary Middle East.""—L. L. Wynn, Macquarie University

"""A landmark in critical security studies and global studies from the global South. Bringing together some of the most astute emerging scholars, artists, and practitioners, Paul Amar's volume bypasses stale analytical binaries. Brimming with extraordinary insights and multiscalar analysis, Cairo Securitized is a model for future scholars seeking to produce cutting edge and methodologically and epistemologically innovative work.”—Omar S. Dahi, Hampshire College ""A must read. Cairo Securitized’s streamlined, diamond-cut contributions will captivate the general public, students, journalists, travelers, and policymakers. This bold and articulate group of scholar-activists sets out to remake Security Studies, Urban Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, and Global Studies from the street-level up. They unleash new concepts for comprehending Cairo, specifically, and, more generally, for shaping a more just and empowering urban social order in any of today’s increasingly unequal and insecure megacities.""—Bassam Haddad, George Mason University ""Cairo Securitized offers a remarkable and compelling new approach to understanding how security regimes permeate the geography of Cairo (its physical, temporal, and digital geographies) and the bodies that inhabit it. The collection of contributors and topics is exquisitely curated, and amplifies the voices of both scholars and activists from the region, reflecting a remarkable array of expertise. This volume will be essential reading not only for security studies scholars, but for anyone, in any discipline, studying the contemporary Middle East.""—L. L. Wynn, Macquarie University"

""The volume is a compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page.""—Contemporary Sociology ""Cairo Securitized comes at the perfect time. . . . [Recommended] to anyone interested in urban justice, security studies, and the social science of activism.""—African Studies Review ""A landmark in critical security studies and global studies from the global South. Bringing together some of the most astute emerging scholars, artists, and practitioners, Paul Amar's volume bypasses stale analytical binaries. Brimming with extraordinary insights and multiscalar analysis, Cairo Securitized is a model for future scholars seeking to produce cutting edge and methodologically and epistemologically innovative work.”—Omar S. Dahi, Hampshire College ""A must read. Cairo Securitized’s streamlined, diamond-cut contributions will captivate the general public, students, journalists, travelers, and policymakers. This bold and articulate group of scholar-activists sets out to remake Security Studies, Urban Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, and Global Studies from the street-level up. They unleash new concepts for comprehending Cairo, specifically, and, more generally, for shaping a more just and empowering urban social order in any of today’s increasingly unequal and insecure megacities.""—Bassam Haddad, George Mason University ""Cairo Securitized offers a remarkable and compelling new approach to understanding how security regimes permeate the geography of Cairo (its physical, temporal, and digital geographies) and the bodies that inhabit it. The collection of contributors and topics is exquisitely curated, and amplifies the voices of both scholars and activists from the region, reflecting a remarkable array of expertise. This volume will be essential reading not only for security studies scholars, but for anyone, in any discipline, studying the contemporary Middle East.""—L. L. Wynn, Macquarie University

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Paul Amar is professor in the Global Studies Department and director of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before his academic career, he worked as a journalist in Cairo, a police reformer and sexuality-rights activist in Rio de Janeiro, and as a conflict resolution and economic development specialist at the United Nations. He is co-editor of Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East (AUC Press, 2006) and author of the award-winning The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism (2013), among several publications.

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