Postcolonial Egypt

European mischief was typified by the Egyptian exhibition in Paris for Barnum's All World Show in the second half of the nineteenth century. The show itself was a huge display built to mimic old-fashioned Egypt architecture, designed down to minuscule detail such as dirt purposeful rubbed into paint to make the display look old. People could come to the All World show to see the display and feel that they were learning about other cultures …

…as a balancing space, concerned and attentive to the world's fertility. 4) Cairo was transformed hugely to enable Europeans to establish discipline over the city. As I mentioned above, the streets were widened and houses and businesses were given numbers. Due to these changes, any person could find any place they desired. In Cairo before, only people familiar with a space could navigate within that space. This change majorly affected the experience of living within Cairo.