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Omar is a geographer and FWO Research Fellow in the Department of Conflict and Development at Ghent University. Currently he is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Previously he was a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His work lies at the intersection of urban studies, settler colonialism, political economy and Middle East studies. Currently he serves in the international advisory boards of Antipode and ACME, the editorial board of Jadaliyya Cities, the steering committee of the International Critical Geography Group and the reading committee of Regards.