22 June 2026
Bringing a balance between expropriation powers and their social burdens
Nadine is a social researcher interested in studying urban inequality, informality, and displacement, specifically from a legal sociology perspective. Her academic background includes an LLM in International and Comparative Law from the American University in Cairo and an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, where she pursued a double major in Sociology and Political Science.
Bringing a balance between expropriation powers and their social burdens
Four main pillars for reform: Fair treatment of existing contracts, rent increases based on legal rather than market values, cash support for the most vulnerable tenants, and reform of the rental system as a whole, of both Old Rent and New Rent
In Part I of a three part series that tackles the Supreme Constitutional Court ruling annulling fixed rents for Egypt’s Old Rent law, we analyse the constitutional court ruling’s key opinions, outline parliament’s response and stakeholder reactions, and summarise the […]
Analysis of new law to legalize informal homes