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Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt

Cairo's Urban Reshaping

In a collage of images the author attempts to convey the transformation of consumer culture and how it is related to the urban reshaping of the city of Cairo to meet with the demands of globalisation. Evidently Cairo´s urban reshaping is taking place by pushing away the unwanted slums residents, which constitute the majority of the city´s population.

The Egyptian paintings and sculptures are by Mahmud Sa'id, Mohammed
Hassan, Youssef Kamel, Taher al-'Amri, Saroukhan, Edmond Soussa, Georges
Sabbagh and 'Afifi. Of the some fifty sculptures, only two are by Egyptians; these
are ...