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'Brothers' or others? : propriety and gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt / Anita H. Fabos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fábos, Anita H.
- Series:
- Studies in forced migration ; v. 22.
- Studies in forced migration ; v. 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sudanese--Egypt--Cairo--History.
- Sudanese.
- Sudanese--Egypt--Cairo--Ethnic identity.
- Sudanese--Egypt--Cairo--Social conditions.
- Muslims--Egypt--Cairo.
- Muslims.
- Sex role--Egypt--Cairo.
- Sex role.
- Egypt--Politics and government.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Foreign relations--Sudan.
- Sudan--Foreign relations--Egypt.
- Sudan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as ""brothers"" in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt have underscored the precarious legal status of Sudanese in Cairo. Neither citizens nor foreigners, they are in an uncertain position, created in part through an unusual ethnic discourse which does not draw principally on obvious characteristics of difference. This rich ethnographic study shows inst
- Contents:
- Title page-'Brothers' or Others?; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration and Transcription; Glossary; Part I-Unity and 'Brotherhood'; Chapter 1-introduction; Chapter 2-Being Sudanese in Cairo; Part II-Modernity and Otherness; Chapter 3-Creating Foreigners, Becoming Exiles; Chapter 4-Presenting Sudanese Differences; Part III-Neither 'Brothers' nor 'Others'; Chapter 5-Muslim Arab Adab and Sudanese Ethnicity; Chapter 6-A Sudanese 'Culture of Exile' in Cairo; Chapter 7-Gender, Diaspora, and Transformation; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-178) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612626753
- 9780857453860
- 0857453866
- 9781282626751
- 1282626752
- 9780857450241
- 0857450247
- OCLC:
- 645101021
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