Cairo’s Manshiyyet Nasser… Where Women Work in a Vicious Cycle of Precarity
Mona Sleem 2022-10-24
Thirty percent of Egyptian families are provided for by women. The percentage rises to forty-five percent in the Manshiyyet Nasser...
The Muhamasheen in Yemen: Alienation at the Bottom of the Heap
Lutf Al-Sarari 2022-06-10
Authoritarian arbitrariness aims to deny the rights of particular social groups in Yemen. These groups are minorities, even though their...
Al-Munib Neighborhood: Forsaken by the State and Run by Its Own Law
Hossam Rabie 2022-06-08
This is an account of the living conditions of the residents of a large slum area near Cairo, the police...
Informal Settlements in Baghdad: Home Is Everywhere
Omar Al-Jaffal 2022-06-06
Informal settlements in Baghdad did not develop in one specific form. Some were built on plots of land without title...
Invisible Slums: “Al-Ghaba” in Tunisia’s Sfax
Mohamed Rami Abdelmoula 2022-06-01
There has been a new phenomenon of sprouting slum-like residential areas for low-income migrants. These grow in the heart of...
Margins of Morocco’s Agadir: Shantytowns and Hybrid Housing Complexes
Said Oulfakir 2022-05-30
In some of the regions of Greater Agadir (including Agadir’s central city, Inezgane, Aït Melloul, and Dachira), chaos is not...
The Campaign to Demolish Encroachments in Iraq: A Fire that Stung Millions
Zaher Moussa 2022-05-28
Iraqis continuously witness the many encroachments on state property by senior politicians and officials who occupied the palaces of former...
The Slums of Khartoum: On Life’s Edge
Shamael Elnoor 2022-05-21
An account of Jabarona, one of the slums at the outskirts of Khartoum, inhabited by the second generation of migrants...
The Slums of Algeria: Invisibility and Hope
Ghania Mouffok 2022-05-18
Everything has changed 57 years after Algeria’s independence, except for social exclusion, and its counterpart, spatial exclusion. To question slums...