13 July 2024
Analysis of Egypt’s largest land deal
Yahia Shawkat is a policy analyst and co-director and research coordinator of 10 Tooba, a research studio where he has developed social housing and spatially just policies and strategies. Yahia is the author of "Egypt’s Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space" (AUC Press, 2020), and wrote "Pacta Sunt Servanda? Exercising Possession in an Informalized Cairo" in Cairo Securitized (AUC Press 2024), while his articles have appeared in Al-Manassa, Mada Masr, TIMEP and others.
Analysis of Egypt’s largest land deal
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