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Imaginaries from a Blackout

لوين بتروح الكهربا؟

Special Issue | Summer 2023

عدد خاص | صيف ٢٠٢٣

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Middle East Urban Studies Highlights of 2020
Middle East Urban Studies Highlights of 2020

Editorial Team

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مذبحه المدن: عشره أعوام بين العنف البطيء، والهدم الكامل
مذبحه المدن: عشره أعوام بين العنف البطيء، والهدم الكامل

عمار عزّوز

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Generative Processes for Revitalizing Historic Towns or Heritage Districts
Generative Processes for Revitalizing Historic Towns or Heritage Districts

Besim S. Hakim

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research papers

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Kinship Flows: Informal Infrastructure Economies in Beirut's Dahieh
Kinship Flows: Informal Infrastructure Economies in Beirut's Dahieh

Danah El Kaouri

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Deliberate Institutional and Legislative Failures: On the Governmentality of Inefficient Infrastructure in Post-War Lebanon
Deliberate Institutional and Legislative Failures: On the Governmentality of Inefficient Infrastructure in Post-War Lebanon

Dima Abi Saab

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Al-Haddamah: Floods, Ecological Time, and the Modernization of Kuwait 
Al-Haddamah: Floods, Ecological Time, and the Modernization of Kuwait 

Rawan Alsaffar

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The Landscape Beyond the Highway: Reclaiming the Depopulated Villages West of Jerusalem
The Landscape Beyond the Highway: Reclaiming the Depopulated Villages West of Jerusalem

Mira Idries

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The Strike: Interrupting Power 
The Strike: Interrupting Power 

Razaz H. Basheir

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الكهرباء في المجتمع الفلسطيني في قطاع غزة: ممارسات الحياة اليومية وآليات الجَلَد والمقاومة المجتمعية
الكهرباء في المجتمع الفلسطيني في قطاع غزة: ممارسات الحياة اليومية وآليات الجَلَد والمقاومة المجتمعية

اباهر السقا

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Collective Valleys: Reclaiming Bisri’s Contested Landscape
Collective Valleys: Reclaiming Bisri’s Contested Landscape

Joude Mabsout

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An ‘Arab’ urban scholarship? Navigating the Tensions of Regional Categories
An ‘Arab’ urban scholarship? Navigating the Tensions of Regional Categories

Ibrahim Abdou

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Highway Mania: Snapshots of Cairo’s Sociopolitical Contradictions
Highway Mania: Snapshots of Cairo’s Sociopolitical Contradictions

Nermin Dessouky

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الروابط الشعبيّة غير الرسمية كأداة بديلة لمشاركة المجتمعات المحليّة في إدارة العمران في ظل غياب المجالس المحليّة
الروابط الشعبيّة غير الرسمية كأداة بديلة لمشاركة المجتمعات المحليّة في إدارة العمران في ظل غياب المجالس المحليّة

محمد الملواني

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short commentaries

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في رحاب الحكاية المعماريّة: قصّة مشربيّة
في رحاب الحكاية المعماريّة: قصّة مشربيّة

عمرو الصفتي

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Review: “The Zabbaleen, an over-studied object?”
Review: “The Zabbaleen, an over-studied object?”

Pierre Desvaux and Gaétan du Roy

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مراجعة مشروع: أبعد من الإسمنت
مراجعة مشروع: أبعد من الإسمنت

أستديو أشغال عامّة

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المجال شبه الحضري لمدينة الرباط الكبرى
المجال شبه الحضري لمدينة الرباط الكبرى

كوثر السالك

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Book Review: “Social Housing in the Middle East”
Book Review: “Social Housing in the Middle East”

Mohamad Gamal-Eldin

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visual works

Visual Works
COMMUNITY – GROWN MAINTENANCE INFRASTRUCTURE: THE STORY OF THE ZABBALIN
COMMUNITY – GROWN MAINTENANCE INFRASTRUCTURE: THE STORY OF THE ZABBALIN

A Visual Essay by Marwa Shykhon

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Desert of the Real: a visual travelogue about real and fictional infrastructures around Chott-el-Djerid / شط الجريد
Desert of the Real: a visual travelogue about real and fictional infrastructures around Chott-el-Djerid / شط الجريد

A Photoessay By Michel Kessler & Pierre Musy

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Beekeepers' Library
Beekeepers' Library

A Photoessay By Joy Amina Garnett

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Erasure and disembodiment as blackout: The case of Heliopolis, Cairo
Erasure and disembodiment as blackout: The case of Heliopolis, Cairo

A Photoessay By Amira Elwakil

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Glass and Glare: Reflections on Balcony Glazing in Beirut
Glass and Glare: Reflections on Balcony Glazing in Beirut

A Photoessay By Aya Nadera Zantout and Meriam Soltan

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ملاحظات من وادي العين
ملاحظات من وادي العين

جورج تادرس وترتيل مُعمر

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Climate Vulnerability and Slow Violence in Kuwait
Climate Vulnerability and Slow Violence in Kuwait

A Photoessay By Geoffrey Martin and Mariam AlSaad

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Remaining Cairo: Bridges, Fragments, and the Persistence of Memory
Remaining Cairo: Bridges, Fragments, and the Persistence of Memory

A Poem by Zain Farhan

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Electricité du Liban: A Vertical Mazra'a
Electricité du Liban: A Vertical Mazra'a

A Photoessay By Iyad Abou Gaida

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“Quo Vadis, Abu Dhabi?”
“Quo Vadis, Abu Dhabi?”

A Photoessay By Yasmin Hamad

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