ANTC18H3 Chapter : Week 8 Readings
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Anouk de koning caf latte and caesar salad: cosmopolitan belonging in cairo s. These coffee shops are not to be confused with the ahawi baladi, the male-dominated sidewalk cafes for which cairo is famous. The diverse coffee shops have become spatial orientation points, as well as social markers of a certain belonging and self-evident normality. Coffee shops were places of gathering for girls and women after work. Now, even if their dress had become more modest, there is more freedom. Those who wore the hijab stated that it was simply obligatory for muslims, and that it did not mean that her lifestyle had to be that different from her female peers who did not wear it. The transnational formula of the coffee shops inserts itself in locally significant and often highly contested domains of leisure and sociability, urban public life, and public space.
