E-raamat: Arab Modernism(s): Cities, History, and Culture [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

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 fathers 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 ction and lm, 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 Fathys 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 authors father, Hassan Elsheshtawy.

Visit the authors dedicated Arab Modernism(s) website at: https://www.yasserelsheshtawy.com/arab-modernisms

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