Connected in Cairo

Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East.
In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies -of Arabic children´s magazines, Pokémon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants- Mark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational system and economic liberalization.