... was meant to solve yet actually aggravated. Contrasting the private car to the public bus—and stressing zahma , population control, and regulation of sexuality—brought to the fore gendered aspects of automobility and especially sexual harassment rather than issues such as energy efficiency, traffic...

... subversion cracks the tarmac face of the neoconservative US-Saudi axis. Barak, meanwhile, slams on the brakes, plunging us into the jammed traffic and jammed politics of Egypt under Sadat (1970–81). He draws on a rich range of sources to show how the problem of zahma or “crowdedness” became a site both...