num_pages: 286
description: My relationship with the city centre began before my birth in 1950. It was at the cafe Bauer 6 Fouad 1st Street that my parents met one another at the Diana Cinema on Al-Alfi Bey Street that they exchanged their first kiss and in the Vart Studio on Emad al-Din Street that they sat for their wedding photograph. I first saw the light of the day in my grandmother's house in Abdin a few steps from the royal palace built in 1865.With these words Galila El Kadi presents this book whose scientific approach is enriched by her memories that cross also views concerning the central space of Cairo.Central it is on many grounds: centre of the capital of a country which comprises a quarter of all Arabs centre of one of the ten largest metropolises on the planet the beating heart of the Arab world. The question of Egypt's centrality is dealt with right away so as to reposition the weight of its metropolis at the level of its influence in the world... to be continued.
language: French
title: Le Caire, Centre en mouvement / Cairo, Centre in movement
publisher: IRD Editions