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The Arab world has not urbanized in isolation. There is a vast literature that has tried to come to grips with the planetary scale of urbanization over the past fifty years within the field of urban studies. This work led by critical urban studies scholars Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and more ..

This book was initiated by my co-editor Michael Sorkin who sadly passed away from COVID-19 in March 2020. Michael was outraged by the violence unleashed by Israel in 2014 in its so-called Operation Protective Edge (OPE), the third major assault on Gaza in six y..

The Arab Center for Architecture (ACA) was established in 2008 to raise awareness about contemporary architecture and urbanism within civil society. In an interview I held on 25 June 2015 at the offices of the ACA in Beirut, George Arbid, the co-fou..

Conference Review: A Suburban Revolution? An International Conference on Bringing the Fringe to the Centre of Global Urban Research and Practice

Suburbanization is the crucial aspect of twenty first century urban development, as now most global urban growth is in the form ..

The physical spaces of the Arab uprisings emerged as powerful political tools in the course of the revolts for both protesters and regimes. Protestors in streets and squares affirmed that power also ex..

If the twentieth century in Europe was an urban century, then the twenty-first marks the transition to a global urban epoch. In 2008, the global urban and peri-urban population surpassed the rural for the first time in human history. ..

In September 2010, Saudi Arabia marked the anniversary of the 1962 Republican Revolution in Yemen by funding lavish parties in the country’s capital. Large numbers of Yemenis thronged the Saudi Arabian embassy in Sana’a to collect the cash dispensed to commemorate this momentous occasion. Such a..