Aerial view of the Ka'ba and what is so called Abraj AlBait A-City: Sector 1576N (Aerial), 1986 by Lebbeus Woods Taken from a...
The Informal siege: on Peripherisation in Cairo
A diagram showing the peripheral urbanization around the central region of greater Cairo The source of the base map is David Sim’s boo...
Democracy Suspended
Yasar Adanali 's presentation on democratic & urban transformation in the Middle East and Turkey at the Integrated Urbanism a...
From Change Control to Adaptation
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) are non-linear, self-organizing systems that have the ability to adapt to changing conditions through changi...
Balconies: an object of occupation
The opening scene of Kamal Aljafari’s film Port of Memory (2009) starts " with a long tracking shot of a grand, decaying house a...
BRT to save Cairo?
What is the best way improve transportation to get people and goods moving in Cairo? Nick Hamilton poses this question wondering if is i...
the struggle goes on
"What both the Greek and Egyptian elections show is that while elections matter and should not be ignored by socialists, they are onl...
The statute of the City حدث في البرازيل
During the process of consolidation of the Constitution of 1988, a multi-sectoral movement of national scope fought to include in the co...
Is informality to be the new paradigm?
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In the clip above, Dr. Heba Raouf tackles, intensely, several issues related to the 25th Jan Egyptian Revolution. In this post, I'...
The Evolutionary Landscapes
I've recently came by a book called In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscapes of Religion by Scott Atran . What's interesti...
Is the crAft g0nE?
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. ...
Dust تراب
" Gian Maria Tosatti 's intervention at Casa Bossi accentuates the remains of this abandoned building, transforming it into...
TeRRiT0rialiTy reductive p0lArizAtions
While I was reading in Edward Said 's Orientalism , I passed by what he calls " territoriality reductive polarizations " re...
الهوة
رسم توضيحى لمستويات السلطة وإتخاذ القرار واحد من أهم أهداف الثورة المصرية فى 25 يناير 2011 هو رفع مستوى معيشة الماطن المصرى فى ك...
The Unspoken AlliAnce
Movie clip from award-winning documentary film Occupation 101 The illegal occupation of Palestine and the subjugation of a people i...
a view on n0rmAlizAti0n
On the occasion of the Egyptian mufti's visit to Jerusalem , I recall what Edward Said wrote in an article titled ( Barenboim and the ...
Resilient rules
In my Masters thesis I explore the influence of the socio-cultural rules, based upon Islamic jurisprudence ( fiqh ), on the c...
الممنوع
When I saw the above clip I've recalled an urban intervention that tackled the same issue: Barriers are everywhere around Cair...
Lessons from the past!!!
Can Egypt be like Spain in 1936, after the constitution is made and the elections was held and the second republic was born many citiz...
The Insurgent Barricade
نقلا عن أخبار الشروق ظهرت صور خرائط "جوجل إرث" تحويل منطقة وسط البلد إلى ثكنات عسكرية وتجمعات أمنية عسكرية بعد .إقامة أكثر ...
In the Life of Cities...: Parallel Narratives of the Urban
" the Egyptian youth [people] shaped their revolution on the 25th of January and validated the designation of the square as Tahrir sq...
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