Cairo in 2015 and in 2023: The Dreadful Fates of the Egyptian Capital in Jamil Nasir’s Tower of Dreams and Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia
| Autor: | Anna Madoeuf, Delphine Pagès-El Karoui |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés (CITERES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Tours (UT), Centre de Recherches Moyen-Orient Méditerranée (CERMOM EA 4091), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Tours |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction, pp.283-301, 2020, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-27893-9_13⟩ Studies in Global Science Fiction ISBN: 9783030278922 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-27893-9_13⟩ |
| Popis: | Luxurious glass skyscrapers towering over endless miserable suburbs, traffic jams, pollution, terrorist attacks and frequent earthquakes. In a world where the inequality gap has grown wider, the West refuses Egypt credit, while its capital of 35 million residents is shaken by intense social and tectonic jolts. This is a glimpse of Cairo in 2015, according to Nasir’s Tower of Dreams (1999). Nine years later, Towfik’s Utopia (2008) presents a portrait of Cairo in 2023 that is no more uplifting. The capital is split into two spaces at war: the rich Egyptians live in a few gated residential communities, while the rest of the territory is reduced to a shanty town. In light of the current contexts, this chapter analyses these parallel representations of Cairo’s future. |
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