Connected in Cairo by Mark Allen Peterson PAPERBACK 9780253223111

Connected in CairoGrowing Up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East\nAuthor(s): Mark Allen Peterson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253223111, 978-0253223111\nSynopsis\nFor members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more \""modern\"" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studiesof Arabic children's magazines, Pokmon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurantsMark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational system and economic liberalization. Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan Cairenes are with their new .