“Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans
(2015)
Book Chapter
Pettit, H. (2015). “Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans. In F. A. Gerges (Ed.), Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings (523-546). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137530868_22
On July 12, 2013, two days into the holy month of Ramadan, I received an invitation to break the fast with Kareem and Islam, two 19-year-old middle-class Egyptians living near downtown Cairo. With both about to commence public university courses, the... Read More about “Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans.