On Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 11am, Yasmine Tarek Ismail and Mina Ibrahim will present their research project: Shubra’s Archive: Community Archive as Vernacular Academic Critique Abstract Shubra’s Archive (Sard for History and Social Research) is an independent archival community located in Cairo’s northern neighborhood of Shubra. Its creation in May 2021 began a mission…
On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 11am at CEDEJ, Martin Stokes, Yara Salahiddeen , Sophie Frankford, Rim Irscheid will present their research project Beyond 1932: Rethinking musical modernity in the MENA region. Abstract The Cairo Congress of Arab Music in 1932 brought together musicians and musicologists from across the post-Ottoman world and involved the…
On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 11am at CEDEJ, Pascale Ghazaleh will present her research “You Sit, You Pay”: Public Space in Cairo After 2013 Abstract Since the current regime came to power in 2013, Egypt’s urban landscapes have undergone dramatic change. In this talk, I will review some of the main directions of…
Call for Abstracts Cairo, Egypt | 1-2 July 2024 Deadline: 24 February 2024 The Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation (CEDEJ) and the The Arab Political Science Network (APSN) are pleased to invite proposals for short papers (approximately 3,000 words) for a research workshop on ‘The Politics of Infrastructure in…
The Politics of Infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa Seminar Series in partnership with Arab Political Science Network The CEDEJ in partnership with the Arab Political Science Network (APSN) are organizing a monthly seminar series titled: The Politics of Infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa. The series runs once a month…
Urban Development New Cities The Housing Ministry is monitoring the construction of 9,000 green housing units in the New Administrative Capital’s Garden City district. This project is part of the 4th generation new cities program, sustainable green and smart cities that are part of the megaprojects of the “New Republic”. A ministry official presented Egypt’s…
Urban Development New Cities The government is examining a tourism development plan for New Al Alamein‘s coastline to boost tourism in a sustainable way. The project is expected to accommodate 30,000 residents and 18,000 hotel rooms. According to Al-Manassa, a third of the real estate developers in the New Administrative Capital – 130 companies –…
City New Cities At the World Population Conference held in Cairo in September, President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi said that 24 new cities had been built to absorb population growth. In Al-Borsa, real estate experts believe that the Nile Delta region offers numerous investment opportunities and will become the leading destination for developers within five years,…
The study of the politics of infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa continues to gain interest and growth among scholars with different interdisciplinary backgrounds and experiences. This interest is part of a larger global trend, known as the ‘infrastructural turn’. This turn not only reflects a discourse in global policy on the…
Scientific Committee: Yasmine Ahmed Moataz, Florian Bonnefoi, Nada El-Kouny, Saker ElNour, Vanessa Lehmann, Idunn Lüllau Holthe, Mohammed Mohieddin, Reem Saad, Salwa Salman, Kawkab Tawfiq, Marie Vannetzel. Organization: Florian Bonnefoi, Idunn Lüllau Holthe, Marie Vannetzel. Organized by the Egyclass network and the CEDEJ. The main objective of this conference on “Rural worlds and social classes…