A WEEK IN A CITY
CONCERNING CAIRO MÛLID
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36661/2448-1092.2011v8n13.12710Keywords:
Cairo, Feast, Pilgrimage, Urban practices, Public spaceAbstract
Feasts are challenges for the public order at the same time as they put to the test the urban public space they shape and transform. This contribution will bring to light the polymorphic event of mûlid in Cairo. The mûlid is at the same time a feast and a pilgrimage. It throws together provincial Egyptians and Cairene residents, hedonists and the pious, men and women and provokes other possibilities for social mixing. It appears that festive and religious activities are parts of the same expression of the need to be together, and of the never-satisfied search for conditions to accomplish this. Through both subtleties and inventiveness, original forms of investment and appropriation of places are made to work. In a landscape made of superimpositions, the many “arts of doing” of the participants can be observed in their designs or their productions, by contacts or avoidances, that enable everyone to place themselves in front of others and with others.
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