Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Egypt has demolished whole unplanned neighborhoods, commonly referred to as ashwa’yat, and relocated thousands of its own citizens. The government has often justified its decision to demolish areas as for the sake of developmen..
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Middle East Program. He will begin as a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in August 2021.