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I am interested in all things housing and urban, and their intersection with political economy and history. I come from the Arab world and have lived in many cities in and outside of it, and speak 2.5 languages.

WikiProject Egypt/Member

WikiProject AncientEgypt/Member

Current focus

Egyptian cities, their districts and their architectural, housing and urban history. Updating, correcting, translating (from Arabic) and creating pages with a focus on:

  • Administrative divisions based on primary sources:
  • [https://cc.gov.eg/legislation_single?id=426249 Local Administration Law 49/1979], and other laws and decrees from the free to access legislative portals [https://cc.gov.eg/legislations cc.gov.eg/legislations] and [https://manshurat.org/ manshurat.org]
  • Governorate websites for division names and maps, for example [http://www.cairo.gov.eg/en/Maps/Pages/cairo-areas.aspx Cairo.gov.eg], [http://giza.gov.eg/GovMaps/Maps.aspx Giza.gov.eg], ...
  • General Organisation for Physical Planning [https://web.archive.org/web/20221231215603/http://gopp.gov.eg/eg-map/ maps] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20221231215555/http://gopp.gov.eg/category/%d8%a7%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa/ reports].
  • Poulation from the latest (2017) census and previous ones from the [https://www.cedejcapmas.org/adws/app/4d5b52dc-669d-11e9-b6a6-975656a88994/index.html CAPMAS digital map and database].
  • Urban and architectural history from credible scholarly or media sources, especially contemporary local or regional publications and/or archives for example:
  • [https://www.archnet.org/collections/39 Majallat al-‘imara]
  • [https://www.archnet.org/collections/33 Alam al-Benaa]
  • [https://www.archnet.org/collections/40 Medina]
  • Al-[https://www.almadaq.net/en/maps/?_cntxt=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%3D Madaq] (historic map archive)