Arab Modernism(s)

Cities, History, and Culture

Yasser Elsheshtawy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

546 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-95268-0 (ISBN)

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Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism – sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately – and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today. Adhering to his late father’s belief that ‘cities are nothing without people’, Yasser Elsheshtawy writes not just about the buildings, but the lives lived in and around them. His narrative weaves together personal anecdotes and works of ﬁction and ﬁlm, thus providing a textured backdrop to his central theme: the evolution of modernism in Arab cities. Following the introduction, the next ten chapters each focuses on a different city or town, moving from Hassan Fathy’s Gourna to Cairo, Algiers, Rabat and Casablanca, Amman, and Beirut and then to the Gulf cities of Riyadh, Kuwait, Doha, and Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The book closes with a Coda – a tribute to the author’s father, Hassan Elsheshtawy.

Yasser Elsheshtawy is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, New York and Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute, Washington, DC. He is author or editor of ﬁve other books in the Routledge Planning, History and Environment series including Temporary Cities: Resisting Transience in Arabia and Riyadh: Transforming a Desert City.

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Modernism Fetish Chapter 2. Gourna: An Interesting Failure Chapter 3. Modernizing Cairo: Urban Transformations and the Inexorable March Towards the Desert Chapter 4. Algiers: ‘Rock the Casbah’ and Post-Colonial Legacies Chapter 5. Rabat, Casablanca and the Politics of Exclusion Chapter 6. Amman: A Tale of Two Cities Chapter 7. Beirut: Urban Violence, Heterotopias and Terrain Vague Chapter 8. Riyadh: Modernity, Tradition and the Quest for Identity Chapter 9. Kuwait: Spatial Marginalization and Exclusion Chapter 10. Doha: Urban Palimpsests and the Erasure of Memory Chapter 11. Parallel Modernities: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and ‘Never the Twain Shall Meet' Chapter 12. Coda: My Architect, Hassan Elsheshtawy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Planning, History and Environment Series
Zusatzinfo	447 Halftones, black and white; 447 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-032-95268-7 / 1032952687
ISBN-13	978-1-032-95268-0 / 9781032952680
Zustand	Neuware