ABSTRACT
We first met Anit in Cairo in the spring of 2006. My research partner and I had just started a project focusing on technology in the home among the emerging middle class, and Anit, 24, was one of our first research participants. She lived with her parents and three younger sisters, and was resolutely secular (unlike her mother and siblings who were all veiled). When we arrived at her family’s large apartment on the third floor, we met Anit’s mother, who served us some tea and a snack, and invited us to move into the living room where two of her daughters were watching TV.
