Middle Eastern cities, 1900-1950 public places and public spheres in transformation edited by Hans Chr. Korsholm Nielsen and Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen.

"Published with financial support from the Danish Research Council for the Humanities"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: The city conceived, perceived, and experienced / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen -- Colonizing popular culture or creating modernity? Architectural metaphors and Egyptian media / Walter Armbrust -- Town planning schemes for Cairo conceived by Egyptian planners in the "Liberal Experiment" period / Mercedes Volait -- The pleasure of public space : Muhammad �Ali Street and the nightclubs in Cairo (1900-1950) / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The gendered politics of public space in a colonial city / Elizabeth Thompson -- The early museums and the formation of their publics / Christel Braae -- Istanbul in the 1940's and the Garip poets / Henning Goldbek -- The appearance and disappearance of public space : Sana�a during the first part of the century / Hans Chr. Korsholm Nielsen -- Construction of the public sphere in the Middle Eastern medina during the first half of the 20th century.