The Egyptian military regime of Abd al-Fattah el-Sisi has announced as part of its Vision
2030 its intention to eliminate informal urban areas. The regime has identified these areas …

Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological
innovation in digital politics—one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings …

This chapter is concerned with the changes that occurred in the politics of Cairo urban
planning from a practitioner point of view. It illustrates these changes through a practice …

This chapter discusses Egypt's long-standing policy of developing new cities in the desert
hinterlands of existing cities. This has been pursued as a method for redistributing the …

Egypt witnessed an uprising in 2011 that unveiled the dynamic of power in the urban space,
as the daily unfolding of events took place on the theater of the city. Most of the literature on …

The chapter highlights the most important facts about the development proposals of
Maspero's unplanned informal area. It highlights and showcases the comparison carried out …

In the popular 2010 book Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City out of Control, David
Sims claims that “superficially, Cairo is a knot of contradictions,” echoing a widespread …

This dissertation investigates the sociospatial and sociopolitical impact of the so-called Arab
Spring by focusing on urban transformations in Cairo after the January 25 th Revolution. In …