American University in Cairo AUC Knowledge Fountain Theses and Dissertations 6-1-2014 The people of the city Omnia Khalil Follow this and additional works at: https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds Recommended Citation APA Citation Khalil, O. (2014).The people of the city [Master’s thesis, the American University in Cairo]. AUC Knowledge Fountain. https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1137 MLA Citation Khalil, Omnia. The people of the city. 2014. American University in Cairo, Master's thesis. AUC Knowledge Fountain. https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1137 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by AUC Knowledge Fountain. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of AUC Knowledge Fountain. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The American University in Cairo School of Humanities and Social Sciences The People of The City Space, Laboring and Power In Quest of Unraveling the HOW in Ramlet Bulaq A Thesis Submitted to The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology In partial fulfillment of the requirements for The degree of Master of Arts/Science By Omnia Khalil Under the supervision of Dr. Hanan Sabea April/2014 To the Dreamers of Social Justice… To the Unknown Revolutionaries … 2 Acknowledgment “We have a duty to change our mode of thinking” This quote is by David Harvey from his lecture titled The Crisis of Capitalism. This quote is one of the most influential quotes for me. On the one hand, it changed my perception in trying to understand the world and the social phenomenon, and on the other, it even made me rethink January 25th, 2011 revolution in different terms, and prompted me to try to understand it in a different mode.