Paul Amar is professor in the Global Studies Department and director of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before his academic career, he worked as a journalist in Cairo, a police reformer and sexuality-rights activist in Rio de Janeiro, and as a conflict resolution and economic development specialist at the United Nations. He is co-editor of Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East (AUC Press, 2006) and author of the award-winning The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism (2013), among several publications.

• ContentsContributorsIntroduction: “Cairo Securitized: Can Another World be Made?”Paul AmarSection I: Vernacular MediascapingBeyond the binary of digital/virtual space versus street/real space1. The Crime of Shamelessness: TikTok Women, the Principle of Bodily Integrity, and Independence without RegretsSara Soumaya Abed2. Securitized Consolidation, or How the State Co-opted Private MediaMohamed Elmeshad3. The City and the Jungle: Africa and Blackness in the Egyptian Interwar Cinematic ImaginationIfdal Elsaket4. Viral Visualities, Image Cycles, and Mosireen’s Revolutionary ArchivesMark Westmoreland5. Queer Digital Activism: Street Media and Subversion of Digital SecuritizationAfsaneh Rigot and Nora NorallaSection II: Reversing Social Cleansing and Depathologizing JusticeBeyond the binaries of sociability versus social cleansing, value versus waste, abled versusdebilitated, medicine versus magic6. Toilets for the People? Hygiene in the City and Depathologizing Popular SanitationTina Guirguis7. Cairo’s Sexuality Infrastructures: Securitizing Abortion, HIV, and Gender AffirmingSurgeryMiguel A. Fuentes Carreño8. Road to the Future: Infrastructure and Landscape Sanitized of Trees and People, Viewedfrom ‘God’s Eyes’Mohamed elShahed9. The Khaki Color of Football: Digitized Militarization of Egypt’s Most Popular GameRania AhmedSection III: Anti-enclave DensityphiliaBeyond the binary of working-class slum versus elite gated city10. Urban (Counter) Revolution Against Gentrification: Shadow Security Networks, Baltagiyya Subjectivities, and Urban DensitiesOmnia Khalil11. Urbanizing Dreams: The Struggles of Attaining ‘New’ Social Contracts for Middle- andUpper-Middle Classes at Cairo’s Desert EdgeMomen ElHusseiny12. Military Capitalism: Economic and Security Logics of Egypt’s New Administrative CapitalRoberta Duffield13. Gulf Investments, Megacontractor Projects, and Urban Isomorphism: The Imposition of aNew Way of LifeMaïa SinnoSection IV: Convivial SociabilitiesBeyond the binaries of street mobility versus family domesticity, public versus private14. Cairo Up! Infrastructures of Security and Desire Aya Nassar15. The Curious Cases of the Disappearing Maids: Mobilization and Precarity Among ForeignDomestic Workers in CairoSabrina Lilleby16. Cruising Ethics in Cairo: Queer Street Socialities against Fear RegimesAhmed Awadalla17. South Sudanese Refugees and Community Schools in Cairo: A Home Away from HomeAmira Hetaba and Elena Habersky18. Entangled in the City: Interstitial and Queer Urbanism through the Eyes of a Second-Generation NubianYahia SalehSection V: Participatory FuturityBeyond the binary of informal versus planned19. Seeing Like a City-State: Behavioral Planning and Governance in Egypt’s First AffordableGated CommunityNicholas Simcik Arese20. Peripheralization and Infrastructural Violence: “Haussmanization” in Managua, Nicaragua and Cairo, EgyptAhmad Borham21. Statizing Informality and Unbundling Rights: Neoliberal Infrastructure in Cairo’s ‘Ashwa’iyyatDeena Khalil22. Al-Asmarat: Managing Informality, Reproducing Precarity, and Dislocating WorkersMostafa Mohie23. Pacta Sunt Servanda? Exercising Possession in an Informalized CairoYahia ShawkatSection VI: Enforcement SovereigntiesBeyond the binary of thugs versus police24. Gestures of Territorialism: Baltagiyya, Land Anxieties, and Securitizing SquattingHatem Hassan25. Cairo Militarized: Army Economies, Security Industries, and Surveillance GeographiesZeinab Abul-Magd26. Thuggery, Urbanity, and Enforced Sovereignties: Competing Universes of the BaltagaAly el Raggal27. Deconstructing Thuggery: Riots, Prison Breaks, and the Criminal Subject of (Non)ViolentStreet PoliticsMohamed Ahmed28. Sectarian Politics? Securitization, Urban Development, and Coptic Advocacy in CairoAmy FallasSection VII: Abolitionist DesecuritizationBeyond the binary of “crime from below” versus “security from above”29. Security from Within: The Case of Informal Policing of Al-Mataria NeighborhoodBassem al-Samragy30. Challenging Urban Militarization in Post-2011 Downtown Cairo: Walls and CheckpointsLaura Monfleur31. Becoming a Man in Cairo: Sudanese and South Sudanese Refugees, Gangs, and StructuralViolencePaul Miranda32. Policing Women’s Sexual Economies in Downtown Cairo: Students and their BrothelFriends in Colonial TimesHanan HammadIndex

"The volume is a compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page."—Contemporary Sociology"Cairo Securitized comes at the perfect time. . . . [Recommended] to anyone interested in urban justice, security studies, and the social science of activism."—African Studies Review"Moving away from traditional state-centered approaches to security, the contributors—scholars, activists, artists, and journalists—investigate how repressive policies shape urban life."—Middle East Journal"A remarkable constellation of scholars, artists, and activists who have lived, studied, and struggled in Cairo’s volatile terrain. Their essays read like a collective act of world-making, reclaiming the city from the suffocating logic of surveillance and fear. The book is both a diagnosis and a celebration."—Hossam el-Hamalawi"A landmark in critical security studies and global studies from the global South. Bringing together some of the most astute emerging scholars, artists, and practitioners, Paul Amar's volume bypasses stale analytical binaries. Brimming with extraordinary insights and multiscalar analysis, Cairo Securitized is a model for future scholars seeking to produce cutting edge and methodologically and epistemologically innovative work.”—Omar S. Dahi, Hampshire College"A must read. Cairo Securitized’s streamlined, diamond-cut contributions will captivate the general public, students, journalists, travelers, and policymakers. This bold and articulate group of scholar-activists sets out to remake Security Studies, Urban Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, and Global Studies from the street-level up. They unleash new concepts for comprehending Cairo, specifically, and, more generally, for shaping a more just and empowering urban social order in any of today’s increasingly unequal and insecure megacities."—Bassam Haddad, George Mason University"Cairo Securitized offers a remarkable and compelling new approach to understanding how security regimes permeate the geography of Cairo (its physical, temporal, and digital geographies) and the bodies that inhabit it. The collection of contributors and topics is exquisitely curated, and amplifies the voices of both scholars and activists from the region, reflecting a remarkable array of expertise. This volume will be essential reading not only for security studies scholars, but for anyone, in any discipline, studying the contemporary Middle East."—L. L. Wynn, Macquarie University

Paul Amar is professor in the Global Studies Department and director of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before his academic career, he worked as a journalist in Cairo, a police reformer and sexuality-rights activist in Rio de Janeiro, and as a conflict resolution and economic development specialist at the United Nations. He is co-editor of Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East (AUC Press, 2006) and author of the award-winning The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism (2013), among several publications.

• ContentsContributorsIntroduction: “Cairo Securitized: Can Another World be Made?”Paul AmarSection I: Vernacular MediascapingBeyond the binary of digital/virtual space versus street/real space1. The Crime of Shamelessness: TikTok Women, the Principle of Bodily Integrity, and Independence without RegretsSara Soumaya Abed2. Securitized Consolidation, or How the State Co-opted Private MediaMohamed Elmeshad3. The City and the Jungle: Africa and Blackness in the Egyptian Interwar Cinematic ImaginationIfdal Elsaket4. Viral Visualities, Image Cycles, and Mosireen’s Revolutionary ArchivesMark Westmoreland5. Queer Digital Activism: Street Media and Subversion of Digital SecuritizationAfsaneh Rigot and Nora NorallaSection II: Reversing Social Cleansing and Depathologizing JusticeBeyond the binaries of sociability versus social cleansing, value versus waste, abled versusdebilitated, medicine versus magic6. Toilets for the People? Hygiene in the City and Depathologizing Popular SanitationTina Guirguis7. Cairo’s Sexuality Infrastructures: Securitizing Abortion, HIV, and Gender AffirmingSurgeryMiguel A. Fuentes Carreño8. Road to the Future: Infrastructure and Landscape Sanitized of Trees and People, Viewedfrom ‘God’s Eyes’Mohamed elShahed9. The Khaki Color of Football: Digitized Militarization of Egypt’s Most Popular GameRania AhmedSection III: Anti-enclave DensityphiliaBeyond the binary of working-class slum versus elite gated city10. Urban (Counter) Revolution Against Gentrification: Shadow Security Networks, Baltagiyya Subjectivities, and Urban DensitiesOmnia Khalil11. Urbanizing Dreams: The Struggles of Attaining ‘New’ Social Contracts for Middle- andUpper-Middle Classes at Cairo’s Desert EdgeMomen ElHusseiny12. Military Capitalism: Economic and Security Logics of Egypt’s New Administrative CapitalRoberta Duffield13. Gulf Investments, Megacontractor Projects, and Urban Isomorphism: The Imposition of aNew Way of LifeMaïa SinnoSection IV: Convivial SociabilitiesBeyond the binaries of street mobility versus family domesticity, public versus private14. Cairo Up! Infrastructures of Security and Desire Aya Nassar15. The Curious Cases of the Disappearing Maids: Mobilization and Precarity Among ForeignDomestic Workers in CairoSabrina Lilleby16. Cruising Ethics in Cairo: Queer Street Socialities against Fear RegimesAhmed Awadalla17. South Sudanese Refugees and Community Schools in Cairo: A Home Away from HomeAmira Hetaba and Elena Habersky18. Entangled in the City: Interstitial and Queer Urbanism through the Eyes of a Second-Generation NubianYahia SalehSection V: Participatory FuturityBeyond the binary of informal versus planned19. Seeing Like a City-State: Behavioral Planning and Governance in Egypt’s First AffordableGated CommunityNicholas Simcik Arese20. Peripheralization and Infrastructural Violence: “Haussmanization” in Managua, Nicaragua and Cairo, EgyptAhmad Borham21. Statizing Informality and Unbundling Rights: Neoliberal Infrastructure in Cairo’s ‘Ashwa’iyyatDeena Khalil22. Al-Asmarat: Managing Informality, Reproducing Precarity, and Dislocating WorkersMostafa Mohie23. Pacta Sunt Servanda? Exercising Possession in an Informalized CairoYahia ShawkatSection VI: Enforcement SovereigntiesBeyond the binary of thugs versus police24. Gestures of Territorialism: Baltagiyya, Land Anxieties, and Securitizing SquattingHatem Hassan25. Cairo Militarized: Army Economies, Security Industries, and Surveillance GeographiesZeinab Abul-Magd26. Thuggery, Urbanity, and Enforced Sovereignties: Competing Universes of the BaltagaAly el Raggal27. Deconstructing Thuggery: Riots, Prison Breaks, and the Criminal Subject of (Non)ViolentStreet PoliticsMohamed Ahmed28. Sectarian Politics? Securitization, Urban Development, and Coptic Advocacy in CairoAmy FallasSection VII: Abolitionist DesecuritizationBeyond the binary of “crime from below” versus “security from above”29. Security from Within: The Case of Informal Policing of Al-Mataria NeighborhoodBassem al-Samragy30. Challenging Urban Militarization in Post-2011 Downtown Cairo: Walls and CheckpointsLaura Monfleur31. Becoming a Man in Cairo: Sudanese and South Sudanese Refugees, Gangs, and StructuralViolencePaul Miranda32. Policing Women’s Sexual Economies in Downtown Cairo: Students and their BrothelFriends in Colonial TimesHanan HammadIndex

"The volume is a compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page."—Contemporary Sociology"Cairo Securitized comes at the perfect time. . . . [Recommended] to anyone interested in urban justice, security studies, and the social science of activism."—African Studies Review"Moving away from traditional state-centered approaches to security, the contributors—scholars, activists, artists, and journalists—investigate how repressive policies shape urban life."—Middle East Journal"A remarkable constellation of scholars, artists, and activists who have lived, studied, and struggled in Cairo’s volatile terrain. Their essays read like a collective act of world-making, reclaiming the city from the suffocating logic of surveillance and fear. The book is both a diagnosis and a celebration."—Hossam el-Hamalawi"A landmark in critical security studies and global studies from the global South. Bringing together some of the most astute emerging scholars, artists, and practitioners, Paul Amar's volume bypasses stale analytical binaries. Brimming with extraordinary insights and multiscalar analysis, Cairo Securitized is a model for future scholars seeking to produce cutting edge and methodologically and epistemologically innovative work.”—Omar S. Dahi, Hampshire College"A must read. Cairo Securitized’s streamlined, diamond-cut contributions will captivate the general public, students, journalists, travelers, and policymakers. This bold and articulate group of scholar-activists sets out to remake Security Studies, Urban Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, and Global Studies from the street-level up. They unleash new concepts for comprehending Cairo, specifically, and, more generally, for shaping a more just and empowering urban social order in any of today’s increasingly unequal and insecure megacities."—Bassam Haddad, George Mason University"Cairo Securitized offers a remarkable and compelling new approach to understanding how security regimes permeate the geography of Cairo (its physical, temporal, and digital geographies) and the bodies that inhabit it. The collection of contributors and topics is exquisitely curated, and amplifies the voices of both scholars and activists from the region, reflecting a remarkable array of expertise. This volume will be essential reading not only for security studies scholars, but for anyone, in any discipline, studying the contemporary Middle East."—L. L. Wynn, Macquarie University

Paul Amar is professor in the Global Studies Department and director of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before his academic career, he worked as a journalist in Cairo, a police reformer and sexuality-rights activist in Rio de Janeiro, and as a conflict resolution and economic development specialist at the United Nations. He is co-editor of Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East (AUC Press, 2006) and author of the award-winning The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism (2013), among several publications.

• ContentsContributorsIntroduction: “Cairo Securitized: Can Another World be Made?”Paul AmarSection I: Vernacular MediascapingBeyond the binary of digital/virtual space versus street/real space1. The Crime of Shamelessness: TikTok Women, the Principle of Bodily Integrity, and Independence without RegretsSara Soumaya Abed2. Securitized Consolidation, or How the State Co-opted Private MediaMohamed Elmeshad3. The City and the Jungle: Africa and Blackness in the Egyptian Interwar Cinematic ImaginationIfdal Elsaket4. Viral Visualities, Image Cycles, and Mosireen’s Revolutionary ArchivesMark Westmoreland5. Queer Digital Activism: Street Media and Subversion of Digital SecuritizationAfsaneh Rigot and Nora NorallaSection II: Reversing Social Cleansing and Depathologizing JusticeBeyond the binaries of sociability versus social cleansing, value versus waste, abled versusdebilitated, medicine versus magic6. Toilets for the People? Hygiene in the City and Depathologizing Popular SanitationTina Guirguis7. Cairo’s Sexuality Infrastructures: Securitizing Abortion, HIV, and Gender AffirmingSurgeryMiguel A. Fuentes Carreño8. Road to the Future: Infrastructure and Landscape Sanitized of Trees and People, Viewedfrom ‘God’s Eyes’Mohamed elShahed9. The Khaki Color of Football: Digitized Militarization of Egypt’s Most Popular GameRania AhmedSection III: Anti-enclave DensityphiliaBeyond the binary of working-class slum versus elite gated city10. Urban (Counter) Revolution Against Gentrification: Shadow Security Networks, Baltagiyya Subjectivities, and Urban DensitiesOmnia Khalil11. Urbanizing Dreams: The Struggles of Attaining ‘New’ Social Contracts for Middle- andUpper-Middle Classes at Cairo’s Desert EdgeMomen ElHusseiny12. Military Capitalism: Economic and Security Logics of Egypt’s New Administrative CapitalRoberta Duffield13. Gulf Investments, Megacontractor Projects, and Urban Isomorphism: The Imposition of aNew Way of LifeMaïa SinnoSection IV: Convivial SociabilitiesBeyond the binaries of street mobility versus family domesticity, public versus private14. Cairo Up! Infrastructures of Security and Desire Aya Nassar15. The Curious Cases of the Disappearing Maids: Mobilization and Precarity Among ForeignDomestic Workers in CairoSabrina Lilleby16. Cruising Ethics in Cairo: Queer Street Socialities against Fear RegimesAhmed Awadalla17. South Sudanese Refugees and Community Schools in Cairo: A Home Away from HomeAmira Hetaba and Elena Habersky18. Entangled in the City: Interstitial and Queer Urbanism through the Eyes of a Second-Generation NubianYahia SalehSection V: Participatory FuturityBeyond the binary of informal versus planned19. Seeing Like a City-State: Behavioral Planning and Governance in Egypt’s First AffordableGated CommunityNicholas Simcik Arese20. Peripheralization and Infrastructural Violence: “Haussmanization” in Managua, Nicaragua and Cairo, EgyptAhmad Borham21. Statizing Informality and Unbundling Rights: Neoliberal Infrastructure in Cairo’s ‘Ashwa’iyyatDeena Khalil22. Al-Asmarat: Managing Informality, Reproducing Precarity, and Dislocating WorkersMostafa Mohie23. Pacta Sunt Servanda? Exercising Possession in an Informalized CairoYahia ShawkatSection VI: Enforcement SovereigntiesBeyond the binary of thugs versus police24. Gestures of Territorialism: Baltagiyya, Land Anxieties, and Securitizing SquattingHatem Hassan25. Cairo Militarized: Army Economies, Security Industries, and Surveillance GeographiesZeinab Abul-Magd26. Thuggery, Urbanity, and Enforced Sovereignties: Competing Universes of the BaltagaAly el Raggal27. Deconstructing Thuggery: Riots, Prison Breaks, and the Criminal Subject of (Non)ViolentStreet PoliticsMohamed Ahmed28. Sectarian Politics? Securitization, Urban Development, and Coptic Advocacy in CairoAmy FallasSection VII: Abolitionist DesecuritizationBeyond the binary of “crime from below” versus “security from above”29. Security from Within: The Case of Informal Policing of Al-Mataria NeighborhoodBassem al-Samragy30. Challenging Urban Militarization in Post-2011 Downtown Cairo: Walls and CheckpointsLaura Monfleur31. Becoming a Man in Cairo: Sudanese and South Sudanese Refugees, Gangs, and StructuralViolencePaul Miranda32. Policing Women’s Sexual Economies in Downtown Cairo: Students and their BrothelFriends in Colonial TimesHanan HammadIndex

"The volume is a compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page."—Contemporary Sociology"Cairo Securitized comes at the perfect time. . . . [Recommended] to anyone interested in urban justice, security studies, and the social science of activism."—African Studies Review"Moving away from traditional state-centered approaches to security, the contributors—scholars, activists, artists, and journalists—investigate how repressive policies shape urban life."—Middle East Journal"A remarkable constellation of scholars, artists, and activists who have lived, studied, and struggled in Cairo’s volatile terrain. Their essays read like a collective act of world-making, reclaiming the city from the suffocating logic of surveillance and fear. The book is both a diagnosis and a celebration."—Hossam el-Hamalawi"A landmark in critical security studies and global studies from the global South. Bringing together some of the most astute emerging scholars, artists, and practitioners, Paul Amar's volume bypasses stale analytical binaries. Brimming with extraordinary insights and multiscalar analysis, Cairo Securitized is a model for future scholars seeking to produce cutting edge and methodologically and epistemologically innovative work.”—Omar S. Dahi, Hampshire College"A must read. Cairo Securitized’s streamlined, diamond-cut contributions will captivate the general public, students, journalists, travelers, and policymakers. This bold and articulate group of scholar-activists sets out to remake Security Studies, Urban Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, and Global Studies from the street-level up. They unleash new concepts for comprehending Cairo, specifically, and, more generally, for shaping a more just and empowering urban social order in any of today’s increasingly unequal and insecure megacities."—Bassam Haddad, George Mason University"Cairo Securitized offers a remarkable and compelling new approach to understanding how security regimes permeate the geography of Cairo (its physical, temporal, and digital geographies) and the bodies that inhabit it. The collection of contributors and topics is exquisitely curated, and amplifies the voices of both scholars and activists from the region, reflecting a remarkable array of expertise. This volume will be essential reading not only for security studies scholars, but for anyone, in any discipline, studying the contemporary Middle East."—L. L. Wynn, Macquarie University