The Chronicles (Fall 2007)

Abstract

Abstract: From the Editor -- Networks of Support -- Documenting Today: Da’m Initiative; the Business of Disseminating Knowledge -- The Chronicles Sounding Board:Egypt’s Private Bankers in the 19th Century -- From Steam to Diesel: The Revamping of Egypt’s Railways -- 100 Years of Cafe Riche: A Memory of the City -- In the Guise of Economic Reform: The Privatization of Banque du Caire -- And Who Will Speak for the Youth: Emerging Youth Movements -- Expanding to Suburbia: Cairo’s News Suburbs -- Selling Healthcare: The Privatization of the Health Insurance Sector -- On the Fringes of a City: A Visit to Ain al-Sira -- Consumers’ Benevolence: Rise of Consumer Activism -- Defying Government Intervention: Egypt’s Workers Rise to the Forefront of Dissent -- Wadna Ne’ish: Experiencing the Bedouins’ Plea -- Egypt’s Thirst Revolution: Water Shortage Raises Temper Across the Nation -- For the Sake of a “Clean Development”: New Approach to Realize Sustainable Development -- Drugs for Development: the Qat Industry and Yemen’s Economic Development -- More than Just Zeal: Hizbullah as a Resource Distributor in Shiite Areas of Lebanon -- Glimpses of Life: Interview with Adel Gazarin on his Interest in Photography -- Visual Alternatives: The Rise of Independent Cinema in Egypt -- Spontaneous Art from the Deep South: Hassan al-Sharq’s Struggle to Let His Art Speak -- The Economic Participation of Women in Egypt: Evidence from a Segmented Labor Market -- Slum Politics: Cairo’s New Modes of Informal Politics and the Lesser Notables -- Speaking in the Language of Loss: Stories about the Everyday and its Burdens among Ce¬ment Carriers in Saft al-Laban -- Those are Liberated Territories: Ruminations on Everyday Forms of Resistance in Contem¬porary Egypt -- First Time on the Margins: A Commercial Film Sheds Lights on Life in the Slums -- Egypt’s Amateur Historian: A Reading in Ahmad Sadiq Saad’s Work – Archives