202 - MERIP

Spring 1997

Middle East Report 202 takes a kaleidoscopic look at life for the majority in the most populous Arab capital.


From the Editors (Spring 1997)	The Editors
Articles
Cairo’s Poor	Asef Bayat
Facts and Figures on Cairo	Sally Ethelston
Urban Planning and Growth in Cairo	Eric Denis
An Expensive Toy	Fayza Hassan
Giza Spaces	Petra Kuppinger
Pollution, Popular Perceptions and Grassroots Environmental Activism	Sohair Mehanna, Nicholas Hopkins
Relocation and the Use of Urban Space in Cairo	Farha Ghannam
Who’s to Blame?	Sohair Mehanna, Nicholas Hopkins
Environmental Conditions in Cairo	Sally Ethelston
Community Participation and Environmental Change	Inas Tewfik
Sheikha in al-Warraq	Karim El-Gawhary
Street Vendors	Karim El-Gawhary
Special Reports
Political Islam Under Attack in Sudan	Dan Connell
The Taliban, the Shari’a and the Pipeline	Olivier Roy
Ten Years of the Los Angeles Eight Deportation Case	Phyllis Bennis
“Is This Case for Real?”	Joan Mandell
Documenting Land Ownership in the Palestinian Authority	Michael R. Fischbach
Reviews
Youssef Chahine’s “Cairo”	Nur Elmessiri
Making It on the Middle Eastern Margins of the Global Capitalist Economy	Janet Bauer

Editor’s Picks (Spring 1997)