Despite its long history and continued centrality to the urban landscape in many cities, the balcony has largely been the space of the poet, the artist, and the literary critic - but not the urbanist or anthropologist. Simultaneously, while there is great commercial interest in the balcony and new, innovative designs and shapes continuously circulate in the media to cater to varying needs and tastes around the world, little anthropological or sociological attention has been directed to this space and its sociocultural and political significance. This paper focuses on the balcony as an important affective urban space that connects yet separates and facilitates yet limits participation in social life. It connects the here and there, the interior and exterior, the visible and invisible, the protected and exposed. This space of in-betweenness comes in different shapes and sizes and affords the residents of Cairo not only a functional space, but also a socio-cultural medium that materializes various inequalities and circulates multiple meanings. In this paper, I integrate insights from the work of Henri Lefebvre and his notion of rhythmanalysis, the work of Pierre Bourdieu and his discussion of social class, and new materialism scholarship and its focus on relationality and the agency of matter. My goal is to trace how continuities and differences, unity and distinction, and intimacy and distance are produced through the interplay between human and nonhuman, time and space, and objects and people. My analysis shows that, as a space of in-betweens, the balcony generates a sense of doubleness: we can look from the outside and explore what the balcony and its shape, decoration, and style tell us about the inhabitants of the place. We can also look (and hear and smell) from the balcony and explore what this view, this positionality, tells us about the neighborhood and the city at large. Thus, this space can serve as the object of our analysis, a space that embodies and circulates meanings as well as a location, a site that enables us to grasp the nature of social interaction and urban life.