Making Cairo medieval /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: The Project of Making Cairo Medieval / Nezar AlSayyed, Irene A. Bierman, Nasser Rabbat -- Part I: A Medieval City for a Modern World -- Disciplining the Eye: Perceiving Medieval Cairo / Irene A. Bierman -- The Medieval Link: Maqrizi's Khitat and Modern Narratives of Cairo / Nasser Rabbat --Ali Mubarak's Cairo: Between the Testimony of Alamuddin and the Imaginary of the Khitat / Nezar AlSayyad -- Part II: Representing and Narrating -- Performing Cairo: Orientalism and the City of the Arabian Nights / Derek Gregory -- Nineteenth-Century Images of Cairo: From the Real to the Interpretative / Caroline Williams -- The Museum of What You Shall Have Been / Donald Prestost -- Part III: Disciplining and Making -- Nineteenth-Century Cairo: A Dual City? / Heba Farouk Ahmed --Modernizing Cairo: A Revisionist Narrative / Khaled Fahmy --Medievalization of the Old City as an Ingredient of Cairo's Modernization: Case Study of Bab Zuwayla / Nairy Hampikian --The Cemeteries of Cairo and the Comité de Conservation / May al-Ibrashy -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors.