Diane Singerman is associate professor in the Department of Government at the School of Public Affairs of American University. She is the co-editor of Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East (AUC Press, 2006).
"[A] substantial contribution to the study of urban governance in
the Middle East."—Review of Middle East Studies
“An excellent pioneering endeavor . . . . This is the fresh air of
academic freedom! For any student of the Middle East this is,
indeed, a very valuable addition.”—Choice
"This is how social science should be done. The Cairo School's
cosmopolitanism from below is enormously important because it is
everyone s cosmopolitanism: the global capitalism of shirt and
shibshib manufacture and of those who wear them. Their work shows
the intellectually and politically generative power of ordinary
Egyptians and the importance of intensely empirical qualitative
analysis for understanding politics. The Cairo School doesn't use
theory it generates theory, for theory grows out of the
particular."—Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania, on Cairo
Cosmopolitan
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