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06.2021 | DEDI -website : A Megacity explained  2021  | DEDI

06.2021 |  Egypt’s Housing Crises: The Shaping of Urban Space by Yahia Shawkat | Book Review, by Dr. Ashraf M. Salama

02.01.2021 | Rowing the Nile: A Soothing Respite in a Chaotic Metropolis” | FR 24 News

17.01.2021 | ‘It takes you out of the city’: The rowers of the river Nile” | The Independent

04.11.2020 | Yahia Shawkat talks about ‘Model’ Villages for ‘Model’ Citizens: Egypt’s Rural Housing Crisis | EUME Berliner Seminar

09.07.2020 | Dialogues on Housing and the City: Rental Realities and Policies During COVID-19 (Recorded) | CEDEJ & FES Webinar

02.07.2020 | Cairo’s New Roads: An Assault on Pedestrians and Mass Transit | Yahia Shawkat | Alternative Policy Solutions

30.06.2020 | Building Violations Bring Out Tailor-Made Pandemic for Real Estate | Invest-Gate

15.01.2019 | Yahia Shawkat writes about “The Problem of the Reconciliation Law” for al-Shorouk (Arabic)

14.04.2019 | Ahmed Zaazaa writes for APS on “Gentrification and forced urban modernization: Fears related to development trends in Cairo”

2019.08.05 | Yahia Shawkat is proud to be part of next month’s IBA ResearchLab International Summer School on The Social Dimension of Social Housing

2019.07.17 | 10 Tooba bids co-founder Omnia Khalil good bye and good luck

2019.04.14 | Ahmed Zaazaa writes for Alternative Policy Solutions on “Gentrification and forced urban modernization: Fears related to development trends in Cairo”

2019.03.25 | Read our BEO’s Analysis: Draft Egypt Housing Strategy – a Step in the Right Direction

2018.12 | Read the new paper co-authored by Ahmed Zaazaa; “Urban Trojan: Urban social innovations in Egypt between the hands of researchers, the community and public authorities”

2017.09.21-20 | Yahia Shawkat participated at the Infrastructure and the Making of Urban Space conference at the ZMO in Berlin

2017.06.23-20 | Omnia Khalil takes part in the International Meeting on Law and Society 2017 in Mexico City

2015.11.23 | In OpenDemocracy, Yahia Shawkat writes a brief history of Government failure to upgrade informal settlements in Egypt

2015.10.28 | Yahia Shawkat writes The Donkey Cart Journal for Mada Masr

2015.09.11 | Yahia Shawkat with SERI’s Lauren Royston on how The idea of new cities [in South Africa] may be folly

2015.08.13 | Omnia Khalil writes for Assafir Alarabi, Self-Built Housing and not Slums.

2015.07.27 | 10 Tooba teamwork presented in Megawra, Ramlet Bulaq: Scenarios of Urban and Social Transformations.

2015.07.09 | Parallel Urban Practice in Egypt report presented at the Egypt Urban Forum last month is now online on our website

2015.07.06 | Omnia Khalil writes for Mada Masr, About Societal and Urban Violence; The People of the City in Ramlet Bulaq.

2015.06.06 | Yahia Shawkat writes for Heinrich Boell on how New Cities in Egypt are unsustainable

2015.05.17 | Yahia Shawkat will give the presentation “The Vacancy Syndrome: Why are millions of homes empty in Egypt, and can they help the housing crisis?” at NVIC on Thursday May 21st

2015.05.15 | Omnia Khalil presents at the Theory and Practice in the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop at The American University in Cairo

2015.05.10 | 10 Tooba invites you to its work shop at Megawra on using the Built Environment Archive

2015.05.05 | Yahia Shawkat writes about Egypt’s Deregulated Property Market: A Crisis of Affordability in MEI

2015.04.15 | Omnia Khalil’s essay on The Every Day in Ramlat Bulaq is out in MERIP Issue 274 Visions

2015.03.22 | Mada Masr interviews Yahia Shawkat on Egypt’s new capital