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Mohamed El-Shahed: Besieged Publics in the Shadow of a Mega Project: The Manufacture of Urban Uncertainty in Port Said

Mohamed El-Shahed is a Cairo-based scholar and researcher currently completing his doctoral dissertation in the Middle East Studies Department at New York University. His dissertation, "Revolutionary Modernism? Architecture and the Politics of Transition in Egypt, 1936-1967", focuses on architecture and urban planning in Egypt during the period of political transition around the 1952 coup d’etat. Mohamed has a Bachelor of Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Master in Architecture Studies from MIT.

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