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On 4 August 2020 a massive explosion in the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut, reportedly the largest non-nuclear blast ever recorded, resulted in at least 200 deaths, thousands of injuries, and extensive damage throughout the city. Although the precise cause of the explosion has not yet been ..

Many non-scholarly and scholarly accounts on the societies, culture, and political economy of the Middle East post-“Arab Uprisings/Spring” still deal with cities and regions as mere repositories of social, cultural, political, and economic action—despite the

“Effective decentralization” is listed as one the “main drivers of change to realize the transformative commitments” advocated by the first draft of the 

[Khaled Malas is a Syrian architect who curated a series of events on the production of the landscape in Syria from before the First World War until today, entitled “excavating the sky” (12-14 August, 2014), at the 14th Venice International Architecture Biennale (7 June to 23 Novemb..

Public space seems to be back in vogue these days, especially in relation to social protests taking place in city squares and along major streets, occupying and claiming spaces, often violently. Why do public spaces matter in cities? Is the absence or presence of public spaces in cities related ..