This past February, the Egyptian government signed a massive $35 billion investment deal with Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, ADQ,...
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Yasser Elsheshtawy is an independent scholar and adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is the author of "Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle," among other publications.
This past February, the Egyptian government signed a massive $35 billion investment deal with Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, ADQ,...
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The New Administrative Capital is the ultimate expression of the assault on Cairo’s urban landscape under Sisi's regime.
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The relationship between architecture and autocracy is as old as architecture itself.
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