Since initiating our scholarly dialogue in 2019 on the political and social implications of reconstruction in Syria, the urgency of this conversation has only intensified.

From Saudi Arabia to Qatar, rulers have used modern air conditioning to control landscapes and lives, forgoing traditional methods of keeping cool.

The MERIP Podcast · Episode

With an estimated worth of $39bn, he wants to use market mechanisms to save the oceans

This report investigates how the war in Sudan is transforming Khartoum through acts of urbicide, the deliberate destruction of urban environments. It draws on satellite imagery, eyewitness testimony, ...

This report investigates how the war in Sudan is transforming Khartoum through acts of urbicide, the deliberate destruction of urban environments. It draws on satellite imagery, eyewitness testimony, ...

Deen Sharp investigates “urbicide”—the destruction of entire cities, the use of the built-environment in oppressive militarisation, and the development and securitisation of planned urban space—across...

Deen Sharp investigates “urbicide”—the destruction of entire cities, the use of the built-environment in oppressive militarisation, and the development and securitisation of planned urban space—across...

This has been our guiding philosophy since Cityscapes Magazine was founded in 2010: The often bewildering array of urban and societal challenges facing humanity today cannot be answered within the con...

Join the UCL Urban Lab and The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) to launch: Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria edited by Nasser Rabbat and Deen Sharp.

Urban Studies Journal Call for Papers is now open: The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation. Submission deadline: 30 June 2025.

AI and big data are changing contemporary humanitarianism for better and worse.

The walls of fear have been destroyed — there is a new landscape of hope that has been hard to even dare to imagine

Middle East Research and Information Project: Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Displacement Urbanism · Episode

Issue Editors: Lisa Hajjar, Basil Farraj, Kanwal Hameed and Jacob Mundy. MER’s fall issue, ‘Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams,’ centers carceralism—that is forms of unfreedom—and organized resista...

Urban Studies Journal Call for Papers is now open: The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation. Submission deadline: 1 July 2025.