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"Concrete Shores: Illusions and Desires of Total Control on the Littoral Edge of Egypt"
Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism, Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt, eds.
Sibel Bozdoğan, Panayiota Pyla and Petros Phokaides, Routledge, London, UK, 2022
Post-independence Egypt's refashioned its Mediterranean beaches into open-air studios for a new social script, using architecture, infrastructure, and state-backed films to choreograph “modern” romances. Reading reels like the 1967 feature The Women’s Camp, this essay shows how the shoreline doubled as both literal edge and ideological media for molding ideal conjugal matches. Sun-splashed frames, however, expose the very repressions and desires that quietly unravel the State’s coastal agenda.
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