After reading Cairo House, I grew a new understanding of Middle Eastern culture. It was clear that the geopolitics of the region also had cultural effects. For instance, the rise and subsequent fall of Nasser brought change to Egypt in how people went upon their day. While Nasser himself was an anti-imperialist against the West, the key part was that he was open to western investment and growing industrialization to compete regionally. We saw that western influence in how many tourists from Western Europe arrived, how cities were changing with new buildings and houses, western clothing brands and food brands like McDonalds were arriving to Egyptian markets, and how Egypt was interacting with the world globally. After Nasser was killed, this only increased as we saw with the Camp David Accords. The value was that the characters in the book had their lives change as they moved from England, Saudi Arabia, and then back to Egypt. England represented the modernized western society, Saudi Arabia showed a country that was just in the early stages of changing but has a very traditionalist background, and then Egypt which showed a clear example of a country well on its way of modernization with western influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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