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Population,
Poverty, and Politics in Middle East Cities
by Michael E. Bonine
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In the first substantial study of mounting urban problems in the
Middle East, contributors present case studies of cities in
Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Oman, Yemen, Sudan, and Iran. In
particular, they address problems of urban planning and
administration (including historic preservation issues), poverty
and marginalization, health and gender in the urban environment,
and the impact of politics on the city, including the actions of
Islamicist groups. The authors stress that Middle East cities are
indeed in crisis; in a concluding chapter, Michael Bonine asks
whether or not they are sustainable.
CONTENTS
1. Population, Poverty, and Politics: Contemporary Middle East
Cities in Crisis, by Michael E. Bonine
Part I. Municipal Government, Urban Planning, and Conserving
the Urban Past
2. Urbanization and Metropolitan Municipal Politics in Turkey, by
Metin Heper
3. Ruptures in the Evolution of the Middle Eastern City: Amman,
by Mohammad Al-Asad
4. Urban Conservation in the Old City of San<a, by R. Brooks
Jeffery
Part II. Poverty and Marginalization in the Urban Middle East
5. Responding to Middle East Urban Poverty: The Informal Economy
in Tunis, by Richard A. Lobban, Jr.
6. Devotion as Distinction, Piety as Power: Religious Revival and
the Transformation of Space in the Illegal Settlements of Tunis,
by Elizabeth Vasile
7. Muscat: Social Segregation and Comparative Poverty in the
Expanding Capital of an Oil State, by Fred Scholz
Part III. Health and Gender and the Urban Environment
8. The Crowded Metropolis: Health and Nutrition in Cairo, by
Osman M. Galal and Gail G. Harrison
9. Population, Poverty, and Gender Politics: Motherhood Pressures
and Marital Crises in the Lives of Poor Urban Egyptian Women, by
Marcia C. Inhorn
10. Gender and Health: Abortion in Urban Egypt, by Sandra D. Lane
Part IV. Islam and Politics: War, Revolution, and Protest in
the Middle Eastern City
11. Urbanization and Political Instability in the Middle East, by
Kirk S. Bowman and Jerrold D. Green
12. Urbanization, Migration, and Politics of Protest in Iran, by
Farhad Kazemi and Lisa Reynolds Wolfe
13. Islam, Islamism, and Urbanization in Sudan: Contradictions
and Complementaries, by John Obert Voll
14. The New Veiling and Urban Crisis: Symbolic Politics in Cairo,
by Arlene Elowe MacLeod
15. Are Cities in the Middle East Sustainable? by Michael E.
Bonine
Michael E. Bonine is professor of geography and Near Eastern
studies at the University of Arizona. Coeditor of Middle
Eastern Cities and Islamic Urbanism (1994), he was executive
director of the Middle East Studies Association from 1981 to
1989.
1997. 384 pp. 6 X 9.
10 b&w photographs,
17 maps, 2 charts, 13 tables, notes, index.
ISBN 0-8130-1474-3
Cloth, $59.95
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"Comprehensively and knowledgeably addresses uniquely
modern dilemmas of urban places in the Middle East by bringing
together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who have already
made significant contributions . . . in their respective fields.
. . . A very important volume."—Janet L. Bauer, Trinity
College, Hartford
"Makes a valuable addition to the literature. . . . Offers a
wealth of diverse and original contributions on social and
cultural issues of urban societies in the region."--Iliya Harik, Indiana University
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